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An east Texas cheerleading squad is at the center of the latest debate about religious expression in the public arena.

Some cheerleaders at Kountze High School, located 85 miles northeast of Houston, were writing Bible verses on homemade signs and bringing them to their school’s football games. After a complaint, the Texas Association of School Boards has advised the Kountze Independent School District to make the cheerleaders stop, according KHOU 11 News in Houston.
The station reported KISD superintendent Kevin Weldon, who heard of the complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, told parents that religious signs at school-sponsored events would not be allowed.
“It is not a personal opinion of mine,” Weldon told KHOU. “My personal convictions are that I am a Christian as well. But I’m also a state employee and Kountze ISD representative. And I was advised that that such a practice (religious signs) would be in direct violation of United States Supreme Court decisions.”
One of those Supreme Court decisions came from a Santa Fe, Texas, case where student-led prayers at games were found to be in violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment.
The Kountze case could wind up in court, too.






Edith McCrotch
September 21st, 2012
When will it end.
I’m not a very religious person, but these FfRF people need to be squashed, financially and personally.
Freedom OF speech and religion trumps this crap these scumbags are trying to pull.
Corona
September 21st, 2012
Kill the Fed. Up the States.
Jorel Lives!
September 21st, 2012
@Edith
When will it end?
They blame most of our problems on religion and ideology. But the secularist, to fill the void, offer little to remedy society’s woes–pursuit of humanistic endeavors and money will solve everything they think. However, that’s not what the history books show. It’s like an ocean tide, the waves of oppression towards the Church ebb to the Revivalist spirit, time and again. This tug-a-war between the Saints and the Devils will continue up to the latter days, when a forced One World Religion will be deemed the answer saying, “We are all worshiping the same god.” That’s until the Antichrist declares HIMSELF God. And that’s when the fun really starts.
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:20
shockuhzulu
September 21st, 2012
Where else in the Universe will you find young girls holding up a sign like that at an athletic competition?
And you can bet that TPTB will squash this small corner of the world. ZERO tolerance!
Unruly Refugee
September 21st, 2012
Would the school board let them keep the sign if they promised to burn down a church after the game?
jwm
September 22nd, 2012
I find it peculiar the way any mention of Christ raises the hackles of the secular fanatics. Yet these are the same people who will rise to the defense of islam with a pious cry for tolerance.
Why does Jesus scare the pants off of them, but mohammed doesn’t even make a blip on their secular radar?
JWM
DirtClub
September 22nd, 2012
Maybe they could do a little experiment:
They could replace the Bible verses with verses from the Koran – just to see what happens . . . I want to see if those on the left would complain about that
bob
September 22nd, 2012
bet if they put some koran saying on there it’d be ok…
Bad Brad
September 22nd, 2012
I dug this up. Heard it a long time ago. Scarey stuff.
http://dontvoteobama.net/Nostradamus%20Predict%20Antichrist%20Obama.htm
Lisl
September 22nd, 2012
Good grief, it IS about free speech! No one is forcing anyone to adhere to what those signs say, or to pray, or even to pay attention to them.
But they ARE trying to force those girls to shut up about their religious beliefs, something I NEVER see them doing with Muslims, many of whom yammer on endlessly about whose head will be sliced off next.
Priorities.
Stranded in Sonoma
September 22nd, 2012
They need to just keep doing what they’re doing. Let it go to court. When they lose, and they will, don’t stop. Just keep doing it. When the libtards start to go ape, let them. Be nice and kind and friendly and let the libtards be the angry bullies. Make sure you use that word too — bully. You are being bullied by the liberal left. Ask the principal if bullying is allowed. Ask why is one person’s right to NOT see something religious more important than another person’s right to see something religious. If the answer is that you can’t do this on school grounds, ask why should that person be allowed to strip me of my rights on school grounds. Point out that these are the people that tell us that when we complain about too much violence and sex on TV, we should just change the channel. Tell them that they can just not look at the sign.
Never stop. Make them come and tear down the signs. When they do, put new ones back up immediately. Find out the names of the people that are against the signs. Hold up a sign at a football game with their names, the names of their children, their addresses and their phone numbers. Make sure the signs say that these people are stripping you of your first amendment rights.
Never give in.
J-Mac
September 22nd, 2012
@JWM, Because Allah doesn’t have the power to do anything to them, but Jesus holds all authority to judge both the quick and the dead. Deep down inside where no light gets to, they know it, and it scares the living crap out of them.
Nutjob
September 22nd, 2012
I hope the liberals who complained suffered permanant eye damage from this.
Nutjob
September 22nd, 2012
Now had the cheerleaders dressed like hookers, handed out condoms and banged the liberal union teachers……all would be well
J-Mac
September 22nd, 2012
The thought just occurred to me: These people who want all mention of Christ silenced in schools and government buildings and such always taught the meme of “separation of church and state”. The problem is that the United States has a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”. Our faith is part of who we are, and we are our government (which we have abdicated control of, but that’s a different debate). Church and state can no more be separated in America than copper and tin can be separated in bronze. These young girls are Americans, entitled to every right enumerated to them in the Constitution of the United States of America. No one has the authority to tell them they can’t speak freely about their faith, even within the context of a school event. It is time for Americans to write both the Scripture and the Constitution not on paper, but on our very hearts and minds. To know what we believe, and to be able to make an instant, powerful, and articulate argument for what those beliefs are and why we hold them.
the aardvark
September 22nd, 2012
Phillipians 4:13 has been one of my life verses for the past 40 yrs.
Rick
September 22nd, 2012
Must be the fund-raising season at FFRF.
This atheist says that “Christian” superintendent needs a bitch-slapping for laying down like that. A letter from the FFRF does NOT have the force of law.
Carlos The Jackal
September 22nd, 2012
If they don’t believe in God, why are they so afraid of those that do?