{"id":11089,"date":"2011-05-12T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2011-05-11T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:19:34","slug":"thomas-more-law-center-defends-patriotic-god-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/thomas-more-law-center-defends-patriotic-god-banners\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas More Law Center Defends Patriotic &#8220;God Banners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case that has fallen from public view, the Thomas More Law Center has continued to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmore.org\/qry\/page.taf?id=19&amp;_function=detail&amp;sbtblct_uid1=905\">defend Poway teacher Brad Johnson&#8217;s<\/a> right to display banners in his classroom that contain patriotic quotes with &#8220;God&#8221; in them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a classic example of discrimination against anything Christian, the School District allowed religious classroom displays by other teachers, including displays included a 35 to 40-foot string of Tibetan prayer flags <!--more-->with images of Buddha; a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon\u2019s anti-religion song \u201cImagine;\u201d a poster with Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s \u201c7 Social Sins\u201d; a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X; and a poster of Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted last year, the District Court found in his favor, saying the school district violated the Establishment Clause by restricting a specific religious viewpoint.\u00a0 The school district appealed.\u00a0 Also noted last year, this case has a unique <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/restrictions-on-judeo-christianity-ruled-unconstitutional\/\">applicability to the military culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case that has fallen from public view, the Thomas More Law Center has continued to defend Poway teacher Brad Johnson&#8217;s right to display banners in his classroom that contain patriotic quotes with &#8220;God&#8221; in them: In a classic example of discrimination against anything Christian, the School District allowed religious classroom displays by other teachers, including displays included a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1746,5284,4,82,19,44,2,1749,17,10,171,1748,1747],"class_list":["post-11089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-brad-johnson","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-poway","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-thomas-more","tag-tmlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}