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Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:07 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:07
From the Dallas Morning News:
The Texas attorney general’s office asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold a state law that allows schoolchildren to pray or meditate during a daily minute of silence.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn upheld the constitutionality of the law last year, throwing out a lawsuit that David and Shannon Croft filed against the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district and Gov. Rick Perry. The couple claims one of their children was told by an elementary school teacher to keep quiet because the minute is a “time for prayer.”
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