{"id":16027,"date":"2017-09-29T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2017-10-04T22:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:57:55","slug":"victory-faith-court-says-cheerleaders-can-paint-bible-verses-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/09\/victory-faith-court-says-cheerleaders-can-paint-bible-verses-banners\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Faith! Court Says Cheerleaders Can Paint Bible Verses on Banners"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16029\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-8.58.45-AM-1024x724.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-09-29 at 8.58.45 AM\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\"><\/p>\n<p>Todd Starnes has a great article this morning about a Court victory you will be happy to hear about.\u00a0 Apparently, in Texas, some cheerleaders had the gall to paint a Bible verse on a banner for the football players to run through.\u00a0 And, naturally, some left-wing nutcases weren\u2019t happy about it. Just like clockwork, the Freedom From Religion Foundation\u00a0 filed a complaint, and it went to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth District Court of Texas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a photo of the \u201chorribly offensive\u201d banner:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Appeals court ruling in favor of Kountze cheerleaders could be last down in battle over banners <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xNwgJhQYfL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/xNwgJhQYfL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yl1Z9wULZM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Yl1Z9wULZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 12NewsNow (@12NewsNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/12NewsNow\/status\/913540056341762049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But \u2014 surprise!\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0the Court ruled in favor of the cheerleaders!\u00a0 According to Starnes, they said, \u201cthe inspirational Bible verses painted on run-through banners are private speech.\u201d\u00a0 You think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe find the Cheerleaders\u2019 speech on the pregame run-through banners cannot be characterized as government speech,\u201d the court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 the school district had banned cheerleaders from writing Bible verses on run-through banners for the football team. That decision came after the notorious Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another great victory for the free speech and religious liberty rights of all Texas students,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/cases\/kountze\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>First Liberty Institute<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0president Kelly Shackelford said. \u201cHopefully this ruling will bring clarity and closure to this issue for all Texas students and schools.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a great development for faith and the First Amendment!\u00a0 Ted Cruz spoke out in support of the cheerleaders.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe First Amendment protects the religious liberty of ever American,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cI\u2019m proud to side with the cheerleaders standing up for free expression of religion and the Bill of Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Way to go, ladies!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2011\/Oct\/15\/2000209638\/-1\/-1\/0\/110813-F-FD024-012.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Media Defense<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for a change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":16029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Victory for Faith! 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