Settlement: Historical American documents can be taught in Cupertino (CA) schools

Alliance Defense Fund ^ | 8/12/05

[dukeman]

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Cupertino Union School District filed a settlement agreement today in the lawsuit Williams v. Vidmar.

"We are pleased that this matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Kevin Theriot. "The school district is to be commended for agreeing that their policy allows teachers, no matter what their religious beliefs, to use handouts of historical significance that have religious content, like the Declaration of Independence."

ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit in federal court against the district in November of last year on behalf of a teacher at Stevens Creek Elementary School. The lawsuit alleged that school officials prohibited him, as an orthodox Christian, from providing supplemental handouts to students about American history because the historical documents contain some references to God and religion.

The settlement agreement puts in writing district policy that "allows teachers, no matter what their religious beliefs, to use appropriate educational material (including supplemental handouts of historical significance) during instructional time that has religious content" and also allows teachers "to teach students during instructional time about matters involving religion" so long as the content is compliant with district-prescribed curriculum and is not used to influence a student's religious beliefs.

The full text of the settlement agreement can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/WvVsettlement.pdf.

ADF is America's largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.

[dukeman]

The Left wants to re-write history by washing away the fact that faith was a major motivation of America's founding fathers. To them, the Declaration of Independence is "unconstitutional" if it is used in classrooms for instruction because it refers to God! This lunacy must be turned back.

[CondorFlight]

". . . to use handouts of historical significance that have religious content, like the Declaration of Independence."

Idiocy! They really have to negotiate about whether students can read the Declaration of Independence????

This isn't progress; the idiots who thought it COULDN'T be read should be flunked (fired) and sent back to repeat
their own educations!

[Mike Darancette]

How special, you have to litigate to force a school district to teach the Declaration of Independence.

[dukeman]

When you first hear a story like this, you have to check and make sure it's not from The Onion or Scrappleface. Sadly, it's true.

[EdReform]

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[EdReform]

ADF is America's largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.

Time to send another donation to the ADF!

[dukeman]

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[Kevin OMalley]

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[fuzzy122]

 DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view  ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!




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DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.



DID YOU KNOW?


As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall,
right above where the Supreme Court judges sit,
a display of the Ten Commandments!





DID YOU KNOW?





There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.


DID YOU KNOW?



James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:


"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."


DID YOU KNOW?





Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:


"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".


DID YOU KNOW?


Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.


DID YOU KNOW?



Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.


DID YOU KNOW?

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law . an oligarchy


the rule of few over many.


DID YOU KNOW?


The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:





"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."


How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

Let’s put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was built on.



Chamber, US House of Representatives




It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, it is very hard to understand why there is such a mess about having the Ten Commandments on display or "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance.