Northville school district officials have apologized for discriminating against a Christian club and are allowing it to resume its meetings during the school day.Last November, two students at Northville High School sued the district after their school banned Connect for Christ from meeting on school time.Now, under a consent judgment reached this month in federal court, the school district and the school board say they "may well have violated" the...
Religion has always been a touchy subject, rarely failing to ignite a heated classroom discussion. When a Christian club was formed at J.R. Tucker High School recently, it spawned more than a few opinions."I think they should leave religion out of school completely," said Crystal Lloyd, a junior. "Whatever happened to separation of church and state?" said Sarah Hess, a sophomore.Other students don't see anything wrong with...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoethan said the European Union should accept Turkey as a member if it really wants to prove that it is not a "Christian club" and suggested that demands to include a reference to Christianity in the bloc's failed constitution might have been responsible for the existing troubles in Turkey's bid to join "If you really claim that the EU is not a Christian club, if you believe this, then you should take...
A member of the Ladue School Board said the district's superintendent lied when he said he was unaware of the nature of a Christian club that meets each month at Ladue Junior High School. ''You knew about the religious aspects,'' Jane Cunningham, a member of the board, told Superintendent Charles D. McKenna at a board meeting at Ladue High School last week. ''We were up front about...
A student Christian Club has been holding weekly prayer and Bible study sessions at Gilroy High School, which a lawyer active in church and state issues says may violate the Constitution.''There is no question there are a tremendous number of legal questions" about the situation, said Betty Evans Boone, an attorney who is West Coast director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She cited cases in California and Washington in which...