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In the wake of the deep austerity facing most governments around the world, leaders are faced with the challenge to "do more with less." Unfortunately, typical cost reduction exercises inevitably result in a difficult trade-off—between price or performance. Breaking this seemingly unavoidable trade-off will require leaders to look at the public sector in a whole new way.
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The Elmbrook [Wis.] School District illegally held graduation ceremonies at Elmbrook Church, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 7-3 on July 23. Symbols in the church, including a giant cross on the wall, conveyed a message that government was endorsing a particular religion, the court ruled in a 2009 suit bought by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 2 upheld a lower court's ruling that denied a 2010 claim by three Michigan pastors and the American Family Association of Michigan that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act hampered their religious obligation "to state clearly the immoral nature of homosexuality" and "to publicly denounce homosexuality, homosexual activism and the homosexual agenda as being contrary to God's law and His divinely inspired Word."
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Women's reproductive rights took hits in July in three court rulings cheered by the Religious Right. Phoenix federal Judge James Teilborg upheld an Arizona law banning all abortions starting at 20 weeks after a woman's last menstrual period.
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Zoo removes Commandments after protest planned
The Oakland [Calif.] Zoo removed a Ten Commandments monument July 25, days before a planned protest by the East Bay Atheists and Atheist Advocates of San Francisco. The 6-foot-tall marble sculpture has been on zoo property since 1965 when the area was a state park.
Joey Piscitelli, Martinez, told the San Jose Mercury News that the removal wasn't a coincidence. "They wanted to thwart the demonstrations and keep this out of the public eye."
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A Mennonite-owned bed-and-breakfast in Grand Forks, B.C., discriminated against a gay couple from Vancouver by refusing them a room, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled July 17.
Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie were each award $4,500 in damages and expenses.
Riverbend B&B owners Les and Susan Molnar, members of a Mennonite church, argued they were exercising their right to religious freedom in the sanctity of their own home.
Florida county sued over 10 Commandments
Bradford County commissioners in Starke, Fla., are being sued by American Atheists for refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from outside the courthouse in Starke.
The county asked the group that put the monument there, the Community Men's Fellowship, to remove it "immediately," but the group refused, reported News 4 in Jacksonville.
FFRF sent a complaint letter May 14 to the commission.
"The county doesn't have the ability to move it without accruing a very substantial cost in doing that," said County Attorney Terry Brown. "So somebody needs to pay for it, and it doesn't need to be the taxpayer."
Faith-healing conviction upheld in Oregon
An Oregon appellate court upheld the 2009 conviction on July 11 of Carl Brent Worthington, a member of the Followers of Christ Church, for second-degree criminal mistreatment in the death of his 15-month old daughter. The girl died of sepsis and bacterial pneumonia from an untreated cystic mass.
Worthington and his pregnant wife, Raylene, were acquitted on manslaughter charges. She was also acquitted of criminal mistreatment. He was sentenced to two months in jail and five years' probation.
Church graduations costly for Conn. school
The Enfield [Conn.] School Board voted 6-3 on July 18 to settle a suit challenging the school system's practice of holding high school graduation ceremonies in a church.
"No students or their families should feel like outsiders at their own graduation ceremony," said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, the Hartford Courant reported.
The district agreed to hold no more graduations in church. Its insurance provider will cover up to $470,000 in settlement costs. The exact amount of the settlement wasn't revealed, but plaintiffs' legal fees are about $1 million.
Ohio high court takes creationist teacher's case
The Ohio Supreme Court voted 4-3 on July 5 to hear Mount Vernon science teacher John Freshwater's appeal of his 2011 firing for pushing Christianity and creationism in the classroom. Freshwater alleges his rights to free speech and academic freedom were violated. The first complaint against him surfaced in 2008.
Religion Clause blog reported that the court granted review on two issues: Could he be fired if the board didn't clearly indicate what materials or teaching methods were unacceptable, and did the mere presence of religious texts from the school library and/or display of a patriotic poster can justify his firing?
The 'God particle': One less place to hide
I guess now that the "God particle" has been discovered -— or very nearly confirmed by a majority of physicists — I need to decide what church to join. We atheists, after all, have long been devoutly demanding evidence of the hypothesized intelligent designer holding the universe together.
So now that scientists have observed the predicted Higgs boson that gives matter its mass — without which there could be no creation, no gravity, galaxies, stars, planets, waterfalls, pansies, panthers or "Hallelujah" choruses — we must conclude that the theologians have been right all along.
Or maybe not.
Peter Higgs, the physicist who first deduced and proposed the existence of the theoretical field now known as the Higgs boson, does not believe in God. After Leon Lederman, another nonbelieving physicist, had jokingly referred to the mysterious boson as the "God particle," Higgs was not happy: "I wish he hadn't done it. I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist."
The phrase became part of the title for Lederman's 2006 book, The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
Other scientists agree with Higgs. Pauline Gagnon, a Canadian physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider, said: "I hate that 'God particle' term. The Higgs is not endowed with any religious meaning. It is ridiculous to call it that."
I am certain Lederman did not have any spiritual motive. He was not trying to endow the particle with any "religious meaning." He was using language in an ironic and humorous way. And most likely his publisher knew that the word "God" helps sell books.
According to one story, Lederman first called it the "goddamn particle," but the editor didn't think that would make a great title. (Although I would have bought such a book!)
When Einstein said that "God does not play dice with the universe," he was clearly not talking about a supernatural being playing a game of craps. The word "God" has often been used (inadvisedly, in my opinion) as a convenient placeholder for "We don't know."
"God" is a synonym for "mystery." When the cause of an event is unknown, some say "God did it." Surprised by a natural disaster, some call it an "act of God." Not having a sure answer, some say "God knows" — meaning, "Who knows?"
God reflects uncertainty, not knowledge. It's the same with faith: We only rely on faith when the claim cannot stand on its own merits.
When the ancient Greek and Nordic civilizations heard thunder, they said, "Zeus is on the warpath," or "Thor is angry." In other words, "Who knows?" Now that we understand something about the weather and electricity, we no longer need Zeus or Thor. We no longer need "God did it." Thor is dead. God has one less place to hide.
But our language still reflects those old patterns. The fact that I'm writing this article on a Thursday (the day of Thor) does not mean the Norse gods really exist or that a thunderstorm is truly an "act of God." When Lederman nicknamed the Higgs boson the "God particle," he was playing with language, joking that since we don't know what holds matter together, God must be the explanation (wink, wink).
While we atheists cannot pretend that the discovery of the Higgs boson proves there is no God, we can certainly say that such evidence, if confirmed, gives God one less place to hide.
Believers will always find other hiding places, so this discovery will pose little threat to their faith. But now maybe they can join us — those with a sense of humor — in officially changing the name of the Higgs boson.
From now on, let's call it the "Godless particle."
Dan Barker is FFRF co-president and author of The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God; Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher To Atheist; Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists; and Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children.
Maia, 12, tells county board to shape up
The Freedom From Religion Foundation named Tennesse student Maia Disbrow, 12, its fifth student activist awardee this year for speaking up in favor of halting prayer before the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners in Chattanooga in July.
The issue has been extremely contentious, and two local men have sued the commission in federal court over the prayers and for being ejected from a meeting while addressing the commission.
Maia's write-up of her experience and a text of her speech follows. Her appearance is also on YouTube (search for Maia Disbrow).
"We are impressed with Maia's gumption, maturity and dedication to a constitutional principle. Going before government bodies to protest government prayer is something many adults are reluctant to do," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
Maia has received a $1,000 award. FFRF officially offers three student activist awards of $1,000 each annually endowed by kind members: the Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist Award, the Catherine Fahringer Memorial Student Activist Award and the Paul J. Gaylor Memorial Student Activist Award. Since both state/church violations and student activism are on the rise, FFRF expects to see increasing numbers of deserving student activists nominated for awards.
Last year, FFRF gave out six $1,000 student awards, all to high school students. This year's other activist winners were high school students as well. Three of the five are from Tennessee.
FFRF members wishing to create and endow a one-time or annual student activist award in their name, as a memorial, etc., are encouraged to contact FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor at 608/256-8900.
View student winners since 1996 at ffrf.org/outreach/awards/student-activist-awards/.
Maia's heartfelt speech on prayer:
Good morning. My name is Maia Disbrow, and I am 12 years old. I am a perfectly normal young adult, although some of my friends would beg to differ.
I was present at the meeting at which my dad spoke. The prayer was very rude to me and some of my closest friends, not to mention parts of my family.
My dad did not put me up to this. I came because I care about this and things like it. All through elementary school, I was teased and ridiculed by people who I thought were my friends. Whenever the subject of me being a freethinker came up, I was singled out, by my friends.
You are doing the same thing that they did to me at every meeting you have. Singling me out. Singling out every single person in Hamilton County who is not Christian.
It is not fair for you to pray openly to your God without praying to all the others as well. I believe a moment of silence would accommodate all beliefs, not just one. And after speaking today, I hope I have some friends left at school next year.
Good day.
Maia writes about bullies
Dear FFRF:
I was sitting right in front when my father spoke at the commission meeting, and also during the prayer beforehand. The prayer was very offensive to me, and when they gave the preacher an award, or present, or whatever they'd like to call it, I almost exploded inside. It made my dad so angry, he was shaking with rage after he sat down from speaking. After we got home that day, a news station called and wanted to interview my dad at our house. They came, did an interview and left.
At some point, one of us joked that I should speak in front of the commission. My dad didn't push me to do it, we just joked about it. But when I thought about it, I realized that there were some things I'd like to say to them. It took me a while to decide, because even though I go to a middle school for the arts that is supposed to accept everyone, I was worried because during elementary school, I was bullied about my beliefs. Whenever the subject of my religion, or lack thereof, came up, my social status dropped for a few days.
So really, I was worried about further bullying. When I realized that the county commissioners were actually behaving like a bunch of fifth-grade bullies, I sat down and started writing my address to them. I honestly didn't expect this much attention for a 40-second speech, but I am very thankful for it.
Thank you so much for the scholarship, although it does make me a little depressed that a person can get an award for standing up for basic human rights.
Maia's father, Steven, writes:
Maia spoke on July 18. I spoke two weeks before that. I took both my kids with me so that they could see how the commission works and get a glimpse at how local government is run.
Maia was born on May 5, 2000, the same day as the supposedly apocalyptic planetary alignment [Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were positioned in line with the Sun]. While her birth didn't herald the end of civilization, it was a big event for her family.
Her interests include reading (which she was doing at 18 months), writing, acting (currently in rehearsals for a production of "Medea"), singing and taking care of her pets (a dog and two guinea pigs). In the fall, she'll be entering seventh grade at the Center for Creative Arts, where she studies visual art.
Maia also has a younger brother, Logan, who insisted on being mentioned here at the end, rather than in the bit about the pets.
Chick-fil-A drops church discount
A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C., dropped a church discount scheduled for each Monday in June after an FFRF member complained. George White noticed an online calendar promoting Church Bulletin Night at the University Mall store:
"Bring in your Church Bulletin from Sunday from 5-8 p.m. every Monday and receive a FREE Chicken Sandwich with the purchase of a medium side and a medium drink!"
The Atlanta-based company's "corporate purpose" is "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us." Founder S. Truett Cathy, 91, is a devout Southern Baptist who insists that all outlets close on Sunday. A series of allegations have been made against the firm for backing anti-gay initiatives.
Such discounts violate the federal Civil Rights Act and some states' equal protection laws. In a June 12 email, owner/operator Sammy Culberston thanked White for bring the matter to his attention. "At present, the church bulletin promotion runs through July but we will be suspending the promotion as of next week."
FFRF member makes plea against government prayer
This is excerpted from FFRF Lifetime Member Larry Rhodes' testimony July 23 before the Knox County Commission in Knoxville, Tenn., before it voted to keep prayer at its meetings. The vote was taken after FFRF complained about the practice. FFRF commends Larry for coming forward in person as a constituent to try to educate the commissioners. A majority of speakers were in favor of discountinuing prayer, including three ministers.
By Larry Rhodes
I am a citizen of Knoxville and have been for 40 years. I graduated from the University of Tennessee. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I've worked here, owned homes here and, for 17 years, ran my own business here.
I was born into a Southern Baptist home and raised Southern Baptist. Even though my religious views have changed over time, I'm still a citizen. As such, I expect my government officials to represent me as a citizen, without injecting individual, personal religious views into the policies that govern my life.
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which you all swore to uphold, forbids the making of any laws which represent an establishment of religion. Therefore, you should be aware that you are about to vote on an unconstitutional action.
Knox County was probably, at one time, 100% Christian (Baptist). It is no longer that. It, and indeed America as a whole, is now a community made up of Baptists, Catholics, Methodists and Mormons, as well as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and nonbelievers.
Indeed, the category called "Other" in Knox County makes up nearly 30% of the population, all of whom are taxpaying citizens. And as citizens, we have a right to be represented equally under the law.
This board today votes on a policy of having religious prayer start its meetings. It would be a specific prayer to a specific god of a specific religion. Even though you may deem it a "generic prayer," it will still leave out all the humanist, secularist, atheist and agnostic citizens of this area, a segment of the population that, like it or not, is growing every day. You will be sending a message to those citizens that "You are not real citizens. You're allowed to live here and pay taxes, but real citizens are those who share the religious beliefs of us, the majority."
I am not here to try to persuade you to not practice your religion. Please, do practice your religion, by all means, in your churches, in your homes, in the closet or in the open air and on every street corner of America if you like. But not in the halls of government, and not with the power of government.
You may be thinking that you must follow your religious faith and do as it dictates. However, faith has not been proven to be a good path to truth. If it were, there would not be thousands of different religions on the planet, all claiming to be following faith.
Remember that the mother in Jonestown who gave her child poisoned Kool-Aid was also following her faith. Those misguided Muslims who flew planes into the buildings in New York and Washington, D.C., were also following their faith. The members of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, when arming themselves and fighting the federal government, were also following their faith.
Please follow your conscience, but leave religious faith at the door. Do not practice your religion for me in the halls of government.
It is much better, by far, to follow the U.S. Constitution, keep your religion out of government and work to keep all other religions out of government as well, ensuring true religious freedom in America.
Thank you.
Member takes flak over church challenge
This is FFRF member John Wolff's letter to the York [Pa.] Daily Record, which was published July 23 in the wake of his public complaint about a restaurant's illegal church bulletin discount in Columbia, Pa.
I have little to disagree with in your editorial, "Atheist raises a shrimpy issue over church bulletin discount." But you have misjudged my motivation. I have no animosity toward the Prudhommes [restaurant owners] and wish them luck if this publicity brings them more business. And this was never about a lousy 10 percent discount, and I am not attacking any particular religion, nor am I trying to spread my nonbelief.
I am adamant, however, in opposing the conventional wisdom that churchgoing makes you a better person. I am at least as good a person as any churchgoer. I am a much better person if you include the many religious child molesters, their enablers, embezzlers, hypocrites and even terrorists who, we are always astounded to discover, "came from a churchgoing family."
For a restaurant to use religion to advance their business is tacky at best, and in my opinion and that of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, it is illegal. I am not a second-class citizen, potentially charged more because I do not attend church. If the Prudhommes want to increase traffic on Sundays, they should give everyone a discount without promoting church attendance. Restaurants have to follow regulations, all the way from food-handling to those affecting public accommodations and civil rights.
You are correct that this a shrimpy deal, just another irksome little thing that advances the agenda of the Religious Right and leads to laws favoring religion over nonreligion like taxpayer-funded vouchers for religious schools and exemptions from fair-hiring laws. Or legislators posturing to honor the bible. Or restrictions on the availability of contraceptives. Such laws are the serious business.
I felt an obligation to speak out because my fellow nonbelievers who hold jobs must pull their punches and may need to remain in the closet in order not to offend anyone. Evidently, the issue has hit a nerve locally to even suggest that churchgoing could be criticized. I admit being very surprised by the size of the flap this has caused. Reminds me that one of the first questions newcomers to the area are often asked is "What church do you go to?"
I do not regret bringing this complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, and I have no intention of escalating this to a lawsuit and enabling lawyers, as it is reported the well-funded Religious Right is eager to do. But I am a bit saddened by the hate mail I've received both in the papers and by mail. One came with a bulletin from a local church, accompanied by a hand-written note calling me an a-hole and adorned with a swastika. Certainly proves my point that churchgoing does not make you a good person.
John Wolff writes that he was born a German Jew in 1932. "Bad timing! My mother always told the story that she was listening to one of Hitler's first harangues while in labor. Catholics saved my life in Belgium by hiding me in boarding schools (at the price of conversion). Although my parents were never religious, I became a fervent Catholic between the ages of 10 and 16, so I understand a bit that religion/meditation can bring good feelings.
"The flap about the church bulletin discount is really the tiniest matter, but it has brought into evidence the bigotry that still lurks under the surface around here. Religion is such a large industry that no one dares attack it."
FFRF asks what's the deal with religious seals
An FFRF complaint over the depiction of a chapel with a cross atop it on the new city seal in Steubenville, Ohio, initially had the city agreeing to change the logo, although the city now says it's not so sure about the change.
On July 25, FFRF received word from the city law director that "the city council has agreed to change the logo as per your request."
But Mayor Domenick Mucci announced several days later that city leaders will review offers of legal help and all other options before making a decision. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty plus several other unnamed Religious Right groups contacted the city offering "free" help.
Part of the silhouette prominently depicts Christ the King Chapel of Franciscan University with a cross atop it. The logo was commissioned by the city from Nelson Fine Art and Gifts, which claims it is the largest-volume American manufacturer of Catholic art and gifts.
By the logo designer's admission, the chapel and cross are a symbol of "faith." The depiction of the cross and chapel on the city logo is a "near copy of the Franciscan University logo, which further blurs the line between church and state," said FFRF Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott.
After the decision went public, it created a media storm. Elliott, in a formal letter, cautioned city officials about being "duped by offers from Religious Right legal groups. They may volunteer their time pro bono but they never pick up the plaintiffs' tab."
For example, the Becket Fund defended the city of Cranston, R.I., from Jessica Ahlquist's challenge to the unconstitutional prayer mural in her school. After the Becket Fund lost the case earlier this year, the school and city of Cranston officials agreed to pay $150,000 to reimburse the ACLU of Rhode Island for part of its legal fees.
"Any claims of historical or cultural significance to the Latin cross on the Steubenville City logo do not relieve the city of its constitutional obligations," noted Elliott.
In July, Elliott also wrote the city of Wyoming, Mich., about a similar violation on its city seal, which is more than 50 years old and in need of an update. The seal features four quadrants, with a church, a factory, a house and a golf green.
"The city may not depict the church and cross because to do so places the city's imprimatur behind Christianity. This excludes non-Christians and violates the Constitution," Elliott wrote.
The Grand Rapids Press (July 31), in reporting FFRF's complaint, noted that the city of Zion, Ill., which fought to keep a seal that included a cross and the phrase "God Reigns" in the late 1980s, spent about about $250,000 in a losing cause, as did Rolling Meadows, Ill., when it fought to retain a cross on its seal.
Wyoming City Manager Curtis Holt commented Aug. 2 in a blog on the city's website, calling FFRF a "third-party radical group."
"It's so clear why a city cannot and should not send a message that it is is a 'Christian city,' or favors Christianity or in the case of Steubenville, Catholicism," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
"Government cannot pick sides on religion. All citizens — whether Christian, Jewish, atheist or agnostic, Muslim, etc. — must be welcomed as full participants," said Barker.
Appleman interviewed by Bill Moyers
FFRF After-Life Member Philip Appleman, distinguished poet, scholar and freethinker, appeared on "Bill Moyers Journal" on July 8 on PBS. The powerful interview and transcript is online at billmoyers.com/segment/the-poetry-of-philip-appleman/.
There are website-only bonuses. Phil reads five additional poems. Photographs of Phil and his wife, playwright Margie Appleman, are featured, along with photos of Phil's mother, the subject of his moving poem, "Gertrude" (read on air).
The interview, which encompasses Phil's freethought views, included Phil reading his poem "Eve" and "God's Grandeur" (which, at his request, was set to music by FFRF Co-President Dan Barker and is featured on FFRF's music CD, "Friendly Neighborhood Atheist"). He also read "Parable of the Perfidious Proverbs," which Freethought Today was honored to publish first and is the title of his newest book of poetry, a satiric look at the bible.
"Our love and congratulations to Philip Appleman for everything he has done for freethought, reason, population control and compassion," said FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor.
"The freethought community is honored to have Phil as one of its most distinguished, eloquent and gentle spokespersons."
'Nones' gain as more drop religious habits
America's "Nones" — the nonreligious — are at an all-time high, now comprising nearly one in five Americans (19%), according to a new study by the Pew Center for the People and the Press. The 19% count is based on aggregated surveys of 19,377 people conducted by the Pew Research Center throughout 2011 and reported by USA Today.
"This means great news for progress, for reasoned debate, for the status of nonbelievers in our nation," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. "The freethought movement and FFRF are growing rapidly. There is an explosion of local and campus freethought groups, activities and conferences."
"Nones" were already the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, according to the definitive American Religious Identification Survey, whose 2008 study showed adult Nones up to 15% from 6% in 1990. ARIS, released in 2009, actually estimated "Nones" at 20% if responses to broader questions about religious practices were included.
Freethinkers have been highly marginalized, in part for being perceived as making up a small segment of the U.S. population. Actually, there have always been many more nonreligious than Jews, Muslims, Mormons or Eastern religions' adherents, currently respectively at 1.2%, 0.6%, 1.4% and 0.9% of the U.S. population, according to ARIS.
"Most minority religions, however tiny in numbers, are treated with respect, inclusion and sometimes deference. It's time public officials and the American public wake up to the changing demographics and stop treating atheists and agnostics as outsiders," added Annie Laurie Gaylor, who co-directs FFRF with Barker.
"With nonbelievers at about 20% of the population, there is no longer any excuse for leaving us out of the equation. Public officials cannot continue to assume 'all Americans' believe in a deity, or continue to offend 20% of the population by imposing prayer at governmental meetings or government-hosted events. These surveys now show that 'In God We Trust' is a provenly inaccurate motto. Nonbelievers should not be treated as political pariahs," Gaylor said.
" 'Nones' in fact were at the time of the last ARIS survey, the second-largest 'denomination' in the nation," Barker said, "following Catholics at 25% and tied with Baptists at 15%. According to the new Pew study, nonbelievers now outrank Baptists."
An atheist for president?
While 90% of Americans would vote for a black, a woman, Catholic, Hispanic, or Jewish presidential candidate, only 54% would vote for an atheist and only 58% would vote for a Muslim, according to a recent Gallup poll. It's an improvement from 1958, when Gallup first asked the question and just 18% said they'd vote for an atheist. This is the first year a majority said it would vote for an atheist candidate.
Gallup began asking a Mormon question in 1967, when former Michigan Gov. George Romney, Mitt Romney's father, was a top candidate for the GOP nomination. That year, 19% said they wouldn't vote for a Mormon for president. Now, 18% wouldn't vote for a qualified Mormon, down from 22% in 2011.
FFRF, ACLU prevail in Giles County, Va.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Urbanski accepted a settlement July 3 and ended the lawsuit between a Giles County, Va., parent and student and the Giles County School Board. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the suit last fall.
The school board has agreed that the Ten Commandments will not be posted in any school "unless and until there is precedent in the Fourth Circuit or United States Supreme Court allowing the posting of the text of the Ten Commandments in the public schools."
Supreme Court precedent states that such postings are impermissible. The Supreme Court ruled in Stone v. Graham that Ten Commandments displays in public schools violate the Establishment Clause.
"No government authorities, including school officials, have the right to tell citizens, much less a captive audience of students, which god to worship, how many gods to worship or whether to worship any god at all," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president.
FFRF first contested the postings in Giles County schools in December 2010 on behalf of a local complainant. State/church watchdog FFRF has more than 19,000 members, including about 500 in Virginia.
In response to the complaint, Superintendent Terry Arbogast removed the Ten Commandments from Giles County schools in January 2011. They had been posted in a frame with the U.S. Constitution in all district schools for over a decade. Members of local churches were outraged and stormed the school board seeking to reinstall the Ten Commandments. Students at one school walked out of classes in protest. Some students called for people objecting to the displays to "go live somewhere else."
The board voted to repost them and adopted a policy to allow displays of the Ten Commandments and nine other "historical documents" in schools. The board also approved a Ten Commandments display in Narrows High School in Narrows, a town of about 2,000.
A Narrows student and parent sued in September 2011. The plaintiffs sought a protective order shielding their identity because of the animus expressed by the public. Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal group affiliated with Liberty University, represented the board and filed a brief opposing the ability of the plaintiffs to use pseudonyms. Urbanski issued a protective order, saying in part, "no harassment, threats, intimidation, or interference with the plaintiffs will be tolerated."
During the course of litigation, other items were added to the Narrows High School display, including portraits and select items on George Washington, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. In May, 26 items were on display.
Urbanski's approval of the settlement ended the long and contentious dispute. In addition to assurances that the Commandments would not be reposted in school, the settlement agreement kept the protective order in effect. The school board or a third party would pay the plaintiffs' legal costs ($6,511). Each side is responsible for their own attorney fees.
Recent changes by the school board and the settlement agreement altered some elements of the display. A page from a Prentice Hall U.S. history textbook replaced the Ten Commandments. The page includes an infographic titled "Roots of Democracy" and includes statements on "Judeo-Christian Roots," "The Enlightenment," "English Parliamentary Traditions" and "Greco-Roman Roots." References to the Commandments were removed from a separate "explanation document" in the display.
The court retains jurisdiction to enforce the settlement for eight years following dismissal of the case.
"FFRF thanks the courageous student and parent who stood up for the U.S. Constitution. We are grateful for the dedicated work of the attorneys on the case, Rebecca Glenberg and Thomas Fitzpatrick of the ACLU of Virginia, Frank Feibelman, cooperating attorney for the ACLU, and Patrick Elliott from FFRF," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.


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YES! Recommends: Institute for Humane Education
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- The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) believes that in order to create a just, sustainable, and humane world, humane education needs to be at the core of everyone's education. IHE curricula, lesson plans, online courses, graduate programs focus on human rights, animal protection, environmental stewardship, and cultural influences.
Curriculum & Resources: 10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock
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- Toolbox for Education and Social Change has a great classroom tool on cooperatives. You can buy its "10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock" poster at pay what you want prices. Available in Spanish, too.
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- Resources from The Food Project, based in the Boston area, focus on sustainable agriculture and youth leadership. TFP graciously shares many of its manuals, activities, and curriculum for free (downloadable).
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- Equal Exchange is a worker-owned cooperative and has been at the forefront of fair trade, supporting small-scale farmers for over 25 years. Part of its mission is to educate and engage the public in the fair trade movement. Its curriculum, working papers, and infographics are terrific learning tools on fair trade, sustainable agriculture, and cooperatives.
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- The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute promotes biomimicry as a sustainability design tool. It shares an abundance of resources, seminars, and trainings with scientists, engineers, architects, business-people, and teachers who desire to use nature's models as inspiration for creating man-made products and sustainable technologies.
Neighborhood Chalkboard Reveals Secrets and Dreams
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- TEDTalk by Candy Chang on connecting communities through art, sharing, and usable public spaces.
Visual Learning: In a Bind
posted Feb 01, 2013
- This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live a nomadic lifestyle, and to be forced to live and work in an unfamiliar place.
Curriculum & Resources: The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
posted Feb 01, 2013
- What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? Why do we need them? Do your students think they're good or bad? Study these three infographics to get three different points of view on GMOs, and to boost your students' critical thinking.
Visual Learning: High and Dry
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- This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live in a remote area and between two worlds—the past of their ancestors and the present of American mainstream culture.


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SAN FRANCISCO — California American Water will seek a larger, and more expensive, desalination plant at the core of its proposed Peninsula water project, the company formally said this week.
Officials also formally said the desal plant wouldn't be ready to deliver water until the end of 2017, at the earliest, a year after a state deadline for cutting back on pumping from the Carmel River. And that's only if no major obstacles, such as litigation over water rights, slow everything down further.
Those developments emerged during hearings on the project's costs and next steps that ended Thursday at state Public Utilities Commission headquarters in San Francisco. PUC Judge Gary Weatherford called on Cal Am to outline a number of proposed changes and key updates on the project during public participation hearings on the Peninsula, scheduled for Jan. 9.
Cal Am is required to fully evaluate the impact of proposed changes and other developments in formal testimony due Jan. 11. Formal participants in the proceedings are set to deliver their own testimony in late February.
According to a Cal Am presentation, the proposed desal plant would have to be larger by about 774 acre-feet per year to more quickly replenish the Seaside aquifer after years of overpumping. The Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster last week cut the replenishment schedule from 50 to 25 years, requiring Cal Am to come up with more replacement water from the Peninsula water project.
Cal Am spokeswoman Catherine Bowie said company officials are still working out how much more the larger desal plant would cost, and said it would be up to the PUC to decide whether it would be warranted.
As for the delay, which had been previously acknowledged, Bowie said company officials largely blamed it on a PUC review schedule that had been extended by about 10 months last summer to allow a full environmental impact study of the project. Bowie said an anticipated delay in drilling test wells could still be made up through streamlined permitting and design, and construction timelines.
Several Peninsula interest groups participating in the PUC hearings called for extending the review period to allow for a more complete vetting of key project changes and their potential impact on the cost and timeline. Some called for conducting a full environmental review of potential alternative projects so they could be ready to go if Cal Am's project is further delayed or scuttled.
Participants in Thursday's hearing included representatives from the PUC's Division of Ratepayer Advocates, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, the Peninsula regional water authority, city of Pacific Grove, Marina Coast Water District, LandWatch Monterey County, Citizens for Public Water and WaterPlus.
Cal Am officials continued to insist they would only consider an alternative project if "insurmountable obstacles" arise, and expressed concern about further delays in the review schedule.
Judge Weatherford said he wanted to keep the project review on schedule and saw no reason to extend it, though he invited participants to seek an extension for specific reasons. Weatherford said he was confident the PUC's environmental review team would conduct a fully adequate evaluation of the project and alternatives, noting Cal Am had already submitted detailed contingency plans.
Weatherford also said supplemental water projects proposed by the city of Pacific Grove should be evaluated in the project EIR.
Cal Am also announced it had purchased its preferred site for the desal plant, paying about $657,500 for a 46-acre parcel off Charles Benson Road near the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency's recycled water plant north of Marina.
Company officials reiterated their intention to draw source water from a shallower aquifer, rather than deeper aquifers in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin heavily opposed by farmers concerned about the potential impact of seawater intrusion.
Marina Coast attorney Mark Fogelman said the district has control over the primary area where Cal Am is planning to drill wells, and argued Cal Am should be required to submit formal plans for using desal source water from outside the Salinas Valley basin.
Also Thursday, Cal Am attorney Sarah Leeper reported that company officials are continuing discussions with Peninsula leaders and organizations over a public participation proposal initiated by the Peninsula water authority. Weatherford said he expected a formal agreement to be placed on the record eventually, though he didn't set a deadline and suggested there could be developments forthcoming.
Peninsula water district attorney David Laredo said Cal Am officials had negotiated in "good faith,", and he expected that to continue. Laredo said he didn't think it was proper to discuss the possibility of a public ownership proposal during Thursday's hearing.
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