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Liberty Counsel sent another letter offering pro bono legal representation to the Irving Independent School District after the ACLU of Texas sent a demand letter threatening the school with legal action if it did not change the location of its graduation ceremony from The Potter’s House, a local nondenominational church, to a secular building.

This location has housed graduations for the last seven years, in order to maximize the number of family and friends that each student can invite. The district’s facilities would severely limit the number of guests each student could bring. The district canceled next year’s graduation ceremonies at the church location after the ACLU threatened suit. However, it still plans to hold all of this year’s graduation ceremonies in The Potter’s House.

The ACLU would rather distort the Constitution and force students and parents to celebrate graduation in cramped, sub-par facilities than to be honest and admit that there is nothing wrong with having graduation in churches or religious venues. Liberty Counsel is standing in the gap and standing up for these schools and for students’ rights. We have published a legal memo regarding hosting public school graduations in churches or religious facilities.

Read our News Release for more details.

Join with us by taking these steps to help other schools.

1. Forward this email to your friends so they will be informed about graduation ceremonies.

2. Tell us if you learn of a public school attempting to censor graduation messages.

3. Support our Friend or Foe Graduation Prayer Campaign.

4. Order your own copy of Students' Rights on Public School Campuses.

From the hallway to the classroom, from personal notes to final exam reports, from praying around the flagpole to praying before lunch, from wearing a cross to carrying a Bible, or from an after-school Bible study club to a graduation speech, students have the right to express their faith at school.

This booklet explains what you may and may not do, say, write, and wear to express your faith at school. Paperback, 8 pages.

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