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5th Circuit Upholds Texas Moment-of-Silence

By Alliance Alert

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Christian Web News: The 5th Circuit decided Monday to uphold a Texas law allowing students to observe one minute of silence following the Pledge of Allegiance. The Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case last year. ?A moment of silence is not a government endorsement of religion just because someone might use the time for prayer,? said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman. ?No student is compelled to pray under the Texas law. The 5th Circuit was right to uphold the district court?s determination that the law is not an establishment of religion.?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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