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Rowan County Teacher Charged with Taking Indecent Liberties With Student
A Rowan County teacher has been arrested and charged with taking indecent liberties with a student. Continue reading
Posted in CRIME, EDUCATION, LL1885, Quiet Epidemic
Tagged Jason T. Dellinger, Quiet Epidemic, Rowan County
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SCOTUS Rules In Favor of Prayer Before Council Meetings
A story about a ruling from the Supreme Court that has NC ramifications: Supreme Court: Opening prayers at council meetings constitutional
Excerpt:
The Supreme Court has upheld the right of local officials to open town council meetings with prayer, ruling that this does not violate the Constitution even if the prayers routinely stress Christianity.
The court said in a 5-4 decision Monday that the content of the prayers is not critical as long as officials make a good-faith effort at inclusion.
The ruling was a victory for the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester.
“The prayer opportunity in this case must be evaluated against the backdrop of historical practice,” the majority wrote in its opinion. “As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition, part of our expressive idiom, similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, inaugural prayer, or the recitation of ‘God save the United States and this honorable Court’ at the opening of this Court’s sessions.”
That’s a big win for various embattled state and local meetings under attack for opening their meetings with a prayer. For example in North Carolina, take Rowan county where “certain types of prayer were no longer welcome.” This ruling by the SCOTUS must be a real blow to the ACLU and ACLU of NC who filed the suit to stop the prayers in Rowan. Cue sad trombone. Continue reading
Posted in constitution, LEGAL, SCOTUS, The Articles
Tagged Freedom Of Religion, Greece NY, Rowan County
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