{"id":21473,"date":"2015-03-02T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=21473"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:12:13","slug":"school-district-cant-pick-and-choose-which-religious-speech-it-allows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/school-district-cant-pick-and-choose-which-religious-speech-it-allows\/","title":{"rendered":"School district can&#8217;t pick and choose which religious speech it allows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance Defending Freedom will try to convince the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at a hearing tomorrow that a Texas school district can&#8217;t pick and choose which religious messages it will allow in commercial settings.<\/p>\n<p>The case concerns an organization that tried to buy advertising on\u00a0the school district&#8217;s Jumbotron during football games for a website called jesustattoo.org, which included a video &#8220;that shows struggling individuals going to Jesus for help,&#8221; according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/9173\" target=\"_blank\">alliance press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZvR3o99yL0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not only is the Lubbock Independent School District&#8217;s understanding of the Establishment Clause deficient, it&#8217;s not consistently applied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The district explained to ADF attorneys that it denied [David] Miller\u2019s request because the district, by its own policies and practices, \u201cis prohibited from allowing religious advertisements with the use of government property based on the Establishment Clause.\u201d Despite the explanation, the district routinely permits various other faith-based, non-school-related organizations to advertise, such as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/files\/FullArmorMinistriesSign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Full Armor Ministries<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/files\/LISD-FieldSignageAd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Lubbock Christian University<\/a>, Sunset Church of Christ\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/files\/JustKidsSign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Just Kids Preschool<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/files\/BethanyBaptistChurchSign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Bethany Baptist Church<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/9173\" target=\"_blank\">Read the release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecollegefix\" target=\"_blank\">Like\u00a0<i>The College Fix<\/i>\u00a0on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/collegefix\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: JesusTattoo.org\/YouTube<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refused to accept Jesus video because it allegedly violates Establishment Clause. \u2026 <a href=http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/21473>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":21474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[14606,2858,10666,14605,14604,1665],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/JesusTattoodotorg.youtube.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-5Al","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}