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Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 26, 2019 United States Files Brief Explaining That Maryland Improperly Excluded Christian School From Scholarship Program The Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education today filed a Statement of Interest in federal court in Maryland, explaining that the Maryland State Department of Education discriminated against Bethel Christian Academy when it excluded the school from its BOOST Scholarship program due to the school’s beliefs regarding marriage and gender set forth in its Parent-Student Handbook. The United States’ brief explains that the school is likely to succeed...

U. NOTRE DAME HOSTS GAY FILM FESTIVAL The University of Notre Dame (IN) is hosting the first ND Queer Film Festival, which began yesterday and runs through Saturday. (See www.nd.edu/~lsayre/NDQFF.) Films include “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” described as an “anatomically incorrect rock odyssey,” and “Go Fish,” a movie about a young lesbian seeking love. Although Notre Dame has refused to recognize a homosexual student club, it has allowed the film festival because it is co-sponsored by an academic department, the Department of Film, Television and Theatre. Funding for the event comes from GALA, an association of homosexual Notre Dame...

SEATTLE CAROLYN Harrison, 42, has enough on her plate. A mother of two school-age children, she teaches English and coaches girls' basketball at a Catholic high school in Tacoma, and is working toward certification as a school administrator. But now she also finds herself trying to overturn the nasty legacy of a 19th-century senator. She is a plaintiff (as is a student at Eastern Washington University) in litigation (undertaken by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice) that may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. It could overturn laws - 37 states, including all Western states, have them - that are residues...