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Jo Anne White, reads her Bible at Greenbelt Park in Maryville.
Read partial transcripts
Click here to read a partial transcript from the court hearing that picks up with attorney Craig Garrett's (identified as "Q") questioning of Jo Anne White (identified as "A") concerning her church's teaching on the "maark of the best."
10-10-07 --A Maryville woman who went to court on Aug. 14 for a child custody hearing says she was persecuted because of her religious beliefs at the hands of the Blount County judicial system. . . . According to Jo Anne White, what was supposed to be a standard child custody hearing turned into an almost hour long “Bible study” in the courtroom in spite of the repeated protests of her attorney, Kevin W. Shepherd. . . . After a detailed discussion of her religious beliefs — documented in court reporter transcripts obtained by The Daily Times — and a brief recess to chambers, Blount County Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young awarded temporary custody of White’s two children to her ex-husband. The custody will be reviewed again in Circuit Court on Dec. 11. . . . While Young questioned White about one specific aspect of her religion, attorney Craig Garrett, who represented White’s ex-husband, asked numerous probing questions about her faith. Of the 65 pages of court transcripts reviewed by The Daily Times, 41 pages deal directly with White’s religious beliefs.
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'Opponents can't remove cross by suing San Diego'
Ruling concludes monument's ownership change eliminates city as defendant
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Mt. Soledad cross near San Diego
1-16-07 -- Lawyers for an atheist who wanted a cross removed from the Mt. Soledad Memorial in San Diego can't reach their goal by suing the city, since the federal government now owns the land, according to an appeals court ruling. . . . "We argued from the start that there was no reason for this case to proceed since the federal government lawfully took ownership of the land on which the memorial sits," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the
American Center for Law and Justice. . . . His comments came with the announcement that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issue a new order dismissing a lawsuit against San Diego as moot. . . . "The appeals court dismissed the suit agreeing with the argument that the case is moot because the federal government now owns the land on which the memorial sits," the announcement said. . . . The ACLJ, which had filed an amicus brief on behalf of 22 members of
Congress with the appeals court, said the
court's opinion "brings to an end one legal chapter" in the fight over the cross, which has been in the courts since the late 1980s.
Secret Service confiscates more Gospel tracts
Los Angeles agent says messages should be in black-and-white
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1-12-07 -- U.S. Secret Service agents, who earlier confiscated Gospel tracts from Christians in Texas and Nevada because they carry a message of salvation and an advisory that they are not legal tender even though they look like a $1 million bill, now have taken the same tracts away from a Los Angeles man. . . . He introduced himself as a Secret Service agent. . . . "He began to ask me questions, like 'have you read the rules and regulations about bills similar to currency?'" Thomas said. "So he just kind of informed me what I could do to be in compliance." . . .He said the officer suggested the bills be larger or smaller than regular currency, or be printed in black-and-white. Then he took Thomas' stack of the tracts, which look like a $1 million bill but have a 160-word Gospel message and other disclaimers. . . . The tracts are produced by Ray Comfort, an evangelist whose
Living Waters Ministry in Southern California has been inundated with requests for them since the first Secret Service confiscation happened last year. . . . As
WND reported at the time, the controversy began June 2 when three agents visited
the Great News Network office in Texas and told a staffer to hand over the tracts. . . . That dispute currently is pending in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case brought by the
American Family Association Center for Law and Policy. Graphic courtesy of Doc
New School Prayer
Now I sit me down in school where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites, it violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green, that's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.