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Oregon Court Orders Game Times Changed To Accommodate Sabbath Observers

By Howard Friedman

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The Oregonian reports that on Friday, an Oregon state Circuit Court judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Oregon School Activities Association to modify the starting times of certain games in the Class 3A state basketball tournament to accommodate the religious beliefs of players from the Portland Adventist Academy. Currently some games are scheduled between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday (Feb. 29 to March 1), the time when Adventists observe their Sabbath. Judge Henry Kantor ruled that the OSAA had not shown that moving the game time would cause undue hardship if one of the Adventist Academy teams advances to that point in the tournament.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).

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