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PHILADELPHIA, Penn., July 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- Seventy-five pro-life teachers, parents/taxpayers and children/students successfully picketed the NEA convention in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 1. Aged eight to eighty, they took positions on all four corners of Arch & 11th Streets, displaying high-visibility signs and posters easily seen by thousands of NEA Delegates disembarking from shuttle buses or entering and leaving the Convention Center's doorways. Pro-lifers and delegates were interviewed by reporters and photojournalists from FOX, Philadelphia Bulletin, Washington Times, Catholic Standard & Times, etc. Many delegates openly expressed disbelief, skepticism, and even shock, at the revelation that NEA was involved...

A case is set to begin in Birmingham federal court next month for a woman who is suing a Christian school that fired her after administrators learned she was unmarried and pregnant. Tesana Lewis filed suit against Covenant Classical School of Trace Crossings, saying she was unfairly fired. The school contends her unwed pregnancy went against the values and religious principles taught there. Lewis' suit says she was hired at the school on December 6, 2003, where she was to help teach 12- to 20-month- olds. She was fired four days later. Lawyers for the private religious school in Hoover...

Florida Senate Alert - Urgent! - Senate Bill 1498 A bill entitled "dignity for all students act" will be voted on in the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill will require: Christian public school teachers, administrators, and counselors to attend homosexual and transsexual (cross dressers - men who dress as women) sensitivity classes as a condition of employment. Children in Kindergarten to attend for homosexual and transsexual tolerance classes. It will ban Christian students from sharing their faith in Christ to homosexual students. It is urgent for you to contact the Vice-chairman & chairman of this Senate Judiciary Committee to:...