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A brilliant strategy, rooted in both common sense and law, has resulted in a victory for both decency and parental rights. Moms for Liberty, a conservative group dedicated to defending parents and students against government overreach, capitalized on a new Florida statute and compelled a school board to bypass its own procedures by voting immediately to remove obscene literature from school libraries. The group’s strategy unfolded in a dramatic way at a school board meeting on Monday in Indian River County, Florida. According to WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, parents and others affiliated with Moms for Liberty selected books from the...

Florida’s Indian River Community College (IRCC) is engaging in a campaign of repression against a Christian student group for attempting to show Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ" on campus. In November 2004, the college banned the Christian Student Fellowship (CSF) from showing the film because it was R-rated, despite the fact that the college has hosted a live performance entitled "F**king for Jesus" that describes simulated sex with "the risen Christ." CSF students report that after their group wrote President Edwin R. Massey in protest, administrators pulled group leaders out of class and, astoundingly, demanded an apology from...