{"id":17081,"date":"2012-04-03T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17081"},"modified":"2012-04-03T00:39:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:39:15","slug":"poway-classroom-god-banners-denied-cert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/poway-classroom-god-banners-denied-cert\/","title":{"rendered":"Poway Classroom &#8220;God Banners&#8221; Denied Cert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/school_law\/2012\/03\/supreme_court_declines_appeals_2.html\">declined to review<\/a> the case of teacher Brad Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;God Banners.&#8221;\u00a0 Johnson&#8217;s classroom was adorned with patriotic banners that noted the references to God in the Nation&#8217;s important documents.<\/p>\n<p>The school district demanded <!--more-->he remove them, claiming they were offensive, despite the presence of similarly themed banners in other teachers&#8217; rooms.\u00a0 The district court <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/restrictions-on-judeo-christianity-ruled-unconstitutional\/\">ruled in his favor<\/a>; the 9th Circuit <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/patriotic-god-banners-ruled-unconstitutional\/\">overturned that ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision lets stand the ruling that Johnson&#8217;s banners were unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjconline.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4965&amp;Itemid=134\">BJC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has declined to review the case of teacher Brad Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;God Banners.&#8221;\u00a0 Johnson&#8217;s classroom was adorned with patriotic banners that noted the references to God in the Nation&#8217;s important documents. The school district demanded<\/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":[1746,82,19,1749,10,171,1748,1747],"class_list":["post-17081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-brad-johnson","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-poway","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-thomas-more","tag-tmlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081","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=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}