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TESTING THE FAITHYMCA fliers banned from schoolAd promoting basketball camp mentions 'Christian principles' Posted: December 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Not known as an overtly Christian organization, the YMCA has come under fire in Bakersfield, Calif., where a school district banned the organization's promotional fliers from its campuses. The local Y can no longer send fliers home with children because a recent one happened to mention the organization puts "Christian principles into practice," reports the Bakersfield Californian. YMCA officials are fuming, the paper reports, and the brouhaha could possibly affect other area school districts. The offending flier, which a district...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSDistrict to ban Boy Scouts fliers?Father complains about papers promoting group sent home with kids Posted: December 5, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A school district in Maine is considering banning the distribution of Boy Scouts fliers to student after one parent complained about the material due to the organization's policy against homosexuals. David Hilton, whose 6-year-old son started school this fall in Portland, Maine, says allowing the Boy Scouts to distribute fliers gives the impression the school district endorses a discriminatory organization, reports the Portland Press Herald. "Young gay and lesbian persons growing up in America ... have...

After his 6-year-old son started attending school in Portland this fall, David Hilton discovered that being a parent these days means sorting through all the papers that get stuffed into children's backpacks at school. For Hilton, though, the problem is not the quantity but the content. Some of the papers come from the Boy Scouts of America, a group that prohibits openly gay men from participating. Hilton said the practice gives the impression that the school department endorses a discriminatory organization, and he is lobbying the School Committee to stop it. The committee will take up the issue tonight. School...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSUniversity revokes 'hate speech' punishmentCollege Republicans disciplined for fliers slamming 'the Left' Posted: November 26, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The president of Gonzaga University has rescinded punishment of the school's College Republicans club, which was taken to task for posting fliers with the book title "Why the Left Hates America." According to a statement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, university President Robert J. Spitzer made the reversal after receiving a letter from the organization. "It is a dark day when universities in a free society start banning everyday words. In this context, it is especially...

The Interfraternity Council Judicial Board will begin to investigate next week as to whether an Iraq war-themed Zeta Psi party violated the code of conduct of the IFC Constitution. The fraternity has come under fire for a "Bombs Over Baghdad" themed party held Saturday. Party-goers dressed in camouflage, and the house was decorated with sandbags, model airplanes and a "landing strip" painted on plywood, said Zeta Psi Vice President Gabriel de la Garza. Flyers for the party distributed on campus showed photographs of a crying child spattered in blood, a man clutching a child's lifeless body and a mutilated dead...

Potentially offensive fliers promoting "Conservative Coming Out Day" were hung around campus yesterday, including one on the door to the Allies office, prompting discussion about their intent. The posters depict sexually suggestive acts and question overt liberalism at Penn State. A flier found outside the Allies office, 231 HUB-Robeson Center, said, "One is male. One is female. Let's do it like they do on the discovery channel [sic]," and showed two animals in a sexually suggestive position. College Republicans chair Brian Battaglia confirmed the group is sponsoring the event, scheduled for noon Thursday on Old Main steps, but said he...

NORFOLK — The Tidewater Libertarian Party reached an agreement with Old Dominion University over the distribution of political fliers, ending a lawsuit that sprung from the party’s anti-referendum campaign last fall. A federal judge had dismissed the lawsuit on a technicality, but under threat of appeal, the university agreed to change its policy, officials said. Even now, Libertarian Party member Brian Babb, who brought the suit, said he remains displeased with the school’s policy. While the school removed a restriction on the “distribution of printed materials,” Babb said he read the new policy as requiring permission before attempting to hand...

<p>Leaflets seen in mosques in this tense Sunni Muslim region warned of new attacks using "modern and advanced methods" only days before insurgents brought down a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter, killing 16 and wounding 20 others.</p> <p>The Sunday missile attack on the helicopter, carrying dozens of soldiers on their way home for leave, was the deadliest single strike against U.S. forces since the war began March 20.</p>

U.S. Troops Cordon Off Saddam Birthplace By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer AP Photo "There are ties leading to this village, to the funding and planning of attacks against U.S. soldiers," said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, a battalion commander with the 4th Infantry Division, which is based in nearby Tikrit. The operation began before dawn with hundreds of U.S. troops and Iraqi police. They erected a fence of barbed wire, stretched over wooden poles, and laid spirals of razor wire around the village, a cluster of mud-and-brick homes set in orchards of pears and pomegranates about six miles south of...

Racist fliers likely protected as free speech, FBI reports By MIKE WIGGINS The Daily Sentinel The distribution of racist fliers over the weekend to homes in Grand Junction and Clifton was prompted by a Clifton man who expressed interest in the National Alliance, the white supremacy group that put together the fliers, a group official said Monday. Shaun Walker, chief executive officer of the National Alliance, would not identify the man or say who delivered the fliers but said the man contacted the group last week. "We have some members and supporters that just wanted to get some information...

Several racists fliers were distributed late Saturday night or early Sunday morning in Durango-area neighborhoods with the National Alliance's name and logo and anti-immigrant messages printed on them. "Immigration? or Invasion," proclaims one flier. "If current trends continue, whites will be a minority in this country within the next 50 years. Non-Whites are turning America into a Third World slum. They come for welfare or to take our jobs." Durango resident Sean Schmida discovered a flier in his yard about 3:30 p.m. Monday. "I was appalled," Schmida said. "After I read it, I couldn't believe I found it in my...

Gonzaga University Declares the Word “Hate” as Discriminatory Administrators Censor Student Flyer HERNDON, VA – Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) administration officials censored flyers advertising a Young America’s Foundation organized lecture because the word “hate” was used on the flyer. The flyer in question featured the topic of guest speaker Dan Flynn’s speech, “Why the Left Hates America,” which is also the title of his book. The administration first approved the flyer then rescinded the approval after some professors and students complained of the use of the word “hate.” In a letter obtained by Young America’s Foundation, Gonzaga’s Office of Student...

Pro-fish activists have won permission from Disney to adapt a film poster for Finding Nemo to help promote vegetarianism to youngsters. Pressure group Peta says it is using the cartoon characters on leaflets, along with a two-metre tall fish, to persuade children not to eat fish. The film features a shark who attends a support group for vegetarians which uses the Peta slogan prominently. A spokesman for Peta (People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals) said: "We were delighted to see our tag-line 'Fish are friends not food' in the Finding Nemo movie. "The slogan is even being used on...

NEW SADDAM 'WANTED FOR $25M' POSTER Coalition offers large reward for information leading to capture of former dictatorSaddam Hussein 'Wanted for $25m' posters and leaflets are to be distributed on the streets of Baghdad today for the first time, as part of the ongoing drive to bring the brutal dictator to justice. Teams of Iraqi police and Coalition soldiers will paste up two striking posters reminding potential informants that tip-offs leading to the arrest or proof of death of Saddam could net them a $25m reward. One of the posters (graphics file attached) features a head-and-shoulders portrait of Saddam alongside...

A matter of authority The Intelligencer PENNRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT officials did the pragmatic thing, if not the right thing, when they agreed to settle a federal lawsuit challenging the high school principal's right to review material prior to its distribution to students. The suit was brought by former student Joe Baker, who during his senior year attempted to distribute fliers in the school that questioned the district's teachings about the origins of life. Baker said the district failed to cover some theories, specifically creationism. Principal Tom Creeden, per district policy, insisted on approving the material before Baker started handing it...

Racist Leaflets Dropped At Lincoln Homes POSTED: 2:31 p.m. CDT August 19, 2003 UPDATED: 2:32 p.m. CDT August 19, 2003 LINCOLN, Neb. -- A white-supremacist group's recent attempts to entice supporters reached beyond Omaha Saturday. Bags containing anti-immigrant statements were found in driveways and lawns in Lincoln on the same day Omaha residents reported finding similar leaflets. The leaflets bear the name and message of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance and derided immigrants as criminals who come to the United States to collect welfare and take jobs. Jennifer Klein was shocked to find the literature in her northwest Lincoln...

Government Urges Colleges to Heed First Amendment Potentially Offensive Speech Must Be Allowed By REGINA CHEN Contributing Writer Friday, August 15, 2003 Responding to letters from across the nation about the state of free speech on college campuses, the U.S. Department of Education sent a strong reminder to universities that campus speech regulations should not infringe upon First Amendment rights. College campuses all maintain different speech policies targeting protests and political literature, intended to protect all students' rights—from those who may be expressing offensive speech to those who may be harassed by such ideas. The letter also clarified the...

The US army is hoping to stick up posters of Saddam Hussein's face superimposed on Hollywood heroines and other stars in an attempt to enrage his followers and draw them out. In one called 'Zsa Zsa Saddam', he has his head tossed back, his blonde locks flowing and a filter-tipped cigarette dangling coquettishly between his delicate fingers. 'Zsa Zsa Saddam' is the US army's latest ploy in the four-month hunt for the fugitive dictator. In a campaign starting this week, US forces plan to put up the posters around Saddam's home town of Tikrit. As well as Saddam dolled up...

First they tried to bomb him, then they tried the offer of a reward. They even released images of what he might look like with no hair. But now the US army would appear to be getting desperate with its latest ploy to catch Saddam Hussein: pictures of the elusive dictator as Hollywood sex goddess. In a scheme likely to raise as many laughs among Iraq's hardline Islamic clerics as Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, troops of the 4th Infantry brigade in Tikrit are planning to put up pictures around the town of Saddam's face superimposed on the bodies of...

Student Punished for Posting a Constitutionally Protected Flier SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA — Audiotapes in the possession of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) show that a student at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) was unjustly punished for posting, in a public lounge, a flier that some students considered “offensive.” FIRE came to the defense of the embattled undergraduate student, Steve Hinkle, in April 2003. Despite FIRE’s efforts to resolve the case amicably and discreetly, Cal Poly persists in its injustice, its deceit, and its abandonment of its moral and constitutional obligations. “There are at least three...