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> *Rhode Island* ACLU (2006) filed an appeal in federal court on behalf of
> an inmate who was barred from preaching during Christian religious
> services, something he had done for the past seven years under the
> supervision and support of prison clergy. The prisoner, Wesley Spratt,
> believes his preaching is a calling from God. Prison officials cited
> vague and unsubstantiated security reasons for imposing the preaching
> ban on Mr. Spratt. The ACLU argued that the ban violates Mr. Spratt's
> religious freedoms guaranteed to prisoners under federal law.
>
www.riaclu.org/20060111.html <
http://www.riaclu.org/20060111.html>
>
>
> The ACLU of *Nevada* (2005) defended the free exercise rights and free
> speech rights of evangelical Christians to preach on the sidewalks of
> the Strip in Las Vegas.
>
www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3379553&nav=15MVaB2T
> <
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3379553&nav=15MVaB2T>
>
> The ACLU of *New Mexico* (2005) joined forces with the American Family
> Association to succeed in freeing a preacher, Shawn Miller, from the
> Roosevelt County jail, where he was held for 109 days for street
> preaching. The ACLU became involved at the request of Miller's wife,
> Theresa.
www.stcynic.com/blog/
> archives/2005/08/aclu_defends_another_street_pr.php
> <
http://www.stcynic.com/blog/archives/2005/08/aclu_defends_another_street_pr.php>;
>
www.aclu.org/religion/gen/19918prs20050804.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/religion/gen/19918prs20050804.html>
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> The ACLU of *New Jersey* (2005) filed a a motion to submit a
> friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Olivia Turton, a second-grade
> student who was forbidden from singing "Awesome God" in a voluntary,
> after-school talent show. The only restriction on the student's
> selection for the talent show was that it be "G-rated." The case, filed
> in federal court, is /Turton, et al. v. Frenchtown Elementary School, et
> al. /
www.aclu.org/religion/schools/20174prs20050920.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/religion/schools/20174prs20050920.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Michigan* (2005) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of
> Joseph Hanas, a Catholic, who was criminally punished for not completing
> a drug rehabilitation program run by the Pentecostal group. Part of the
> program required reading the Bible for seven hours a day, proclaiming
> one's salvation at the alter, and being tested on Pentecostal
> principles. Staff confiscated Mr. Hanas's rosary and told him
> Catholicism was witchcraft.
>
www.aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/22354prs20051206.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/22354prs20051206.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* (2005) won a battle against Turtle Creek
> Borough that repeatedly denied an occupancy permit to a predominantly
> African-American church, Ekklesia, which had purchased the church
> building from a predominantly white parish. The case is /Ekklesia Church
> v. Borough of Turtle Creek/. The case was settled.
>
www.aclupa.org/downloads/SpringDocket.pdf
> <
http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/SpringDocket.pdf>
>
> The ACLU of *Oregon* (2004-05) filed suit on behalf of high school
> basketball players from an Adventist school against the Oregon School
> Activities Association, which administers competitive athletic and
> artistic competitions in Oregon high schools. The ACLU argued that the
> Adventist basketball players who have made it to the state tournament
> should not be required to play tournament games on Saturday, their
> Sabbath. The case, argued in Oregon courts, is /Nakashima v. Board Of
> Education/.
www.aclu-or.org/litigation/portlandadventacademy/PAA.html
> <
http://www.aclu-or.org/litigation/portlandadventacademy/PAA.html>
>
>
> The ACLU of *Washington* (2004) reached a favorable settlement on behalf
> of Donald Ausderau, a Christian minister, who wanted to preach to the
> public on Plaza sidewalks.
www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=57
> <
http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=57>
>
> The ACLU of *Virginia* (2004) interceded with local authorities on
> behalf of Baptist preachers who were refused permission to perform
> baptisms in the river in Falmouth Waterside Park in Stafford County.
>
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16839-2004Jun4
> <
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16839-2004Jun4>;
>
www.aclu.org/religion/discrim/16230prs20040603.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/religion/discrim/16230prs20040603.html>
>
> The *Indiana* Civil Liberties Union (2004) filed suit against the city
> of Scottsburg for their repeated threats of arrest and/or citation
> against members of the Old Paths Baptist Church for demonstrating
> regarding various subjects dealing with their religious beliefs.
>
www.iclu.org/news/news_article.asp?ID=978
> <
http://www.iclu.org/news/news_article.asp?ID=978>
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* (2005) won a battle against Turtle Creek
> Borough that repeatedly denied an occupancy permit to a predominantly
> African-American church, Ekklesia, which had purchased the church
> building from a predominantly white parish. The case is /Ekklesia Church
> v. Borough of Turtle Creek/. The case was settled. With the help of the
> ACLU of Pennsylvania Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (2004), the Church Army,
> an Episcopal social service group, was able to keep its program of
> feeding the homeless running. The ACLU convinced the County Health
> Department to reverse a decision that meals served to homeless people in
> a church must be cooked on the premises, as opposed to individual homes.
> Had the decision not been reversed, the ministry would have been forced
> to cease the program.
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* (2004) was victorious in its arguments that
> government had to accommodate Amish drivers who used highly reflective
> gray tape on their buggies instead of orange triangles, to which the
> Amish objected for religious reasons.
>
www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20021020amish1020p6.asp.
> <
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20021020amish1020p6.asp.>
>
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> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* (2004) settled a lawsuit on behalf of Second
> Baptist Church of Homestead, a predominantly African-American church
> that had been denied a zoning permit to operate in a church building
> purchased by a white congregation. The occupancy permit was awarded in
> 2002, and in 2004, the Borough of West Mifflin agreed to pay damages and
> compensate the church for its loses. The case is /Second Baptist Church
> of Homestead v. Borough of West Mifflin/.
>
www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20021029churchsuitsouth2p2.asp
> <
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20021029churchsuitsouth2p2.asp>;
>
www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20021116aclureg6p6.asp
> <
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20021116aclureg6p6.asp>;
>
www.post-gazette.com/pg/04111/303298.stm
> <
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04111/303298.stm>
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> The ACLU of *Massachusetts* (2003) intervened on behalf of a group of
> students at Westfield High School who were suspended for distributing
> candy canes and a religious message in school. The ACLU succeeded in
> having the suspensions revoked and filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit
> brought on behalf of the students against the school district. Students
> who were suspended include Daniel S. Souza, Stephen J. Grabowski, Sharon
> L. Sitler and Paul Sitler.
>
www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12828prs20030221.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12828prs20030221.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Rhode Island* (2003) interceded on behalf of an
> interdenominational group of carolers who were denied the opportunity to
> sing Christmas carols on Christmas Eve to inmates at the women's prison
> in Cranston, Rhode Island.
>
www.rifrn.net/blog/blogs/noskin_b.php?p=45&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
> <
http://www.rifrn.net/blog/blogs/noskin_b.php?p=45&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1>
>
> The *Iowa* Civil Liberties Union (2002) publicly supported a group of
> Christian students who filed a lawsuit against Davenport Schools
> asserting their right to distribute religious literature during
> non-instructional time. The ICLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in
> the suit on behalf of the students.
>
www.aclu.org/studentsrights/religion/12811prs20020711.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/religion/12811prs20020711.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Massachusetts* (2002) filed a brief supporting the right of
> the Church of the Good News to run ads criticizing the secularization of
> Christmas and promoting Christianity as the "one true religion" after
> the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority refused to allow the paid
> advertisements to be posted and to sell additional advertising space to
> the church.
www.aclu.org/freespeech/gen/10925prs20020108.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/gen/10925prs20020108.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Virginia* (2002) joined the Rev. Jerry Falwell in winning a
> lawsuit arguing the Virginia Constitution's provision that bans
> religious organizations from incorporating is unconstitutional.
>
www.aclu.org/religion/frb/16040prs20020417.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/religion/frb/16040prs20020417.html>
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> The ACLU of *Michigan* (beginning in 2001) represented Abby Moler, a
> student at Sterling Heights Stevenson High School, whose yearbook entry
> was deleted because of its religious content.
>
www.freep.com/cgi-bin/forms/printerfriendly.pl
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http://www.freep.com/cgi-bin/forms/printerfriendly.pl>;
>
www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Massachusetts* (2000) defended inmate Peter Kane's right to
> exercise his religious beliefs when prison officials confiscated his
> rosary beads. The rosary beads were black and white and prison rules
> allow only solid-colored beads.
www.firmstand.org/news/rosary.html
> <
http://www.firmstand.org/news/rosary.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Virginia* (2000) represented Charles D. Johnson, a street
> preacher who was convicted under Richmond's noise ordinance. The
> Virginia Court of Appeals reversed his conviction in 2000. The case is
> /Johnson v. City of Richmond/, 2000 WL 1459848 (Va. App. 2000).
>
> The ACLU of Eastern *Missouri* (1999) secured a favorable settlement for
> a nurse, Miki M. Cain, who was fired for wearing a cross-shaped lapel
> pin on her uniform.
legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/news/msg00021.html
> <
http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/news/msg00021.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Virginia* (1997-1999) represented Rita Warren and her
> mission to erect a crèche on Fairfax County government space that had
> been set aside as a public forum. The ACLU argued restricting the use of
> the public forum to county residents only was an unreasonable
> restriction. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the ACLU.
>
www.providence.edu/polisci/cammarano/article-Masters.htm
> <
http://www.providence.edu/polisci/cammarano/article-Masters.htm>;
>
www.catholicherald.com/eddesk/97ed/ed971211.htm
> <
http://www.catholicherald.com/eddesk/97ed/ed971211.htm>
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> The ACLU of *Iowa* (1997) represented Conservative Christians in Clarke
> County and won the right to force a county referendum on gambling.
>
www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12852prs20050429.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12852prs20050429.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1997) represented
> Carlyn Kline, a fundamentalist Christian woman who challenged the
> legality of a mandatory divorce-counseling program conducted by Catholic
> Charities. Her religious beliefs prohibited her from attending
> "non-Christian" counseling.
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1997) intervened
> on behalf of a Mennonite nurse and prevented his firing for refusing to
> shave his beard for religious reasons. The employer demanded the nurse
> shave his beard so the state-issued mask to guard against tuberculosis
> would fit tightly despite the employee's offer to purchase a more
> expensive mask that would is approved for work with T.B. patients and
> that would fit properly with his beard intact. After receiving telephone
> calls and letters from the ACLU, the state employer agreed to
> accommodate the nurse's religion.
>
> Amish farmers benefited from the ACLU of *Pennsylvania* Greater
> Pittsburgh Chapter's letter threatening a lawsuit if the Elk Lick
> Township rescind a municipal ordinance that prohibited farm tractors
> with steel wheels from traveling on or over the township's roads. Amish
> religious beliefs dictate that they maintain steel wheels on their
> tractors and the ordinance prevented Amish farmers from moving their
> tractors from one farm to another, and in some cases from one part of
> their property to another. The township rescinded the ordinance in 1995
> and dropped all charges against the various persons charged under the
> ordinance.
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1995) represented
> a 17-year-old foster child who was being forced to attend her foster
> family's church. The foster child was Methodist and the church she was
> being forced to attend was not of the Methodist faith. After the ACLU
> threatened to sue the county allowed the child to attend a Methodist
> church and placed her in a different foster home.
>
> The ACLU of *Pennsylvania* Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1995) secured the
> right of a minister from the United Methodist Church to hold meetings in
> the Harmony Township Borough building that was open for use by community
> groups.
>
> *Iowa* affiliate of the ACLU (1995) represented and vindicated the free
> speech and religious expression of a conservative Christian activist,
> Elaine Jaquith of Waterloo, who had been denied access to broadcast her
> message on public television.
>
www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12852prs20050429.html
> <
http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12852prs20050429.html>
>
> The ACLU of *Texas* (beginning in 1995) represented Catholic and Mormon
> Santa Fe High School students who opposed the proselytizing prayers
> offered by the school's student council chaplain over the public address
> system prior to home football games. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed that
> public schools should not be used to proselytize on behalf of religion.
> /Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe/, 530 U.S. 290 (2000)
>
www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/683
> <
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/683>
>
> The ACLU of *Vermont* (1994-95) represented evangelical Christians Freda
> and Perry Hollyer, who were denied Medicaid and food stamp benefits
> because they refused to obtain social security numbers for their
> children. The Hollyers believed that obtaining social security numbers
> for their children ran contrary to their understanding of the Book of
> Revelations. The ACLU appealed the denial to the state's Human Services
> Board. The Board ruled in favor of the Hollyers holding that the state's
> legitimate interests in preventing fraud could be achieved without use
> of a social security number. The Board's ruling is on file with the
> ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.
>
> The ACLU of *Utah* (1990s) represented an evangelical Christian ministry
> that had been evicted and denied future access as a vendor at a state
> fair because fair-goers objected to the religious content of the
> message.
www.acluutah.org/01report.htm
