{"id":149,"date":"2010-06-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/lawsuits-debate-public-school-graduations-in-churches-students-wearing-rosaries.html"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:00:00","slug":"lawsuits-debate-public-school-graduations-in-churches-students-wearing-rosaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/lawsuits-debate-public-school-graduations-in-churches-students-wearing-rosaries.html","title":{"rendered":"ACLJ Fights for Public School Graduations in Churches, Students to Wear Rosaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy week for the American Center for Law and Justice, the conservative civil liberties law firm founded by prominent evangelical Pat Robertson. The ACLJ, something of a counterweight to the ACLU, is involved in two high-profile cases concerning religion in the public school sphere: championing the right for school graduations to be held in churches<\/a>, and for students to be allowed to wear rosary beads regardless of a school’s dress code<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both cases are ongoing, although the group’s appeal of the Connecticut judge’s ruling against the graduations may not be considered in time <\/a>for the two schools in question to hold their commencement exercises at First Cathedral, a nondenominational megachurch, as planned.<\/p>\n

For more on the rosary case, check out Beliefnet’s Lynn v. Sekulow <\/em>religion law blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited at 1 p.m. EST to add: <\/em>The Rev. Martin Marty, a prominent religious history professor at the University of Chicago, had an interesting take on the church graduation debate a few days ago, in The Chicago Tribune’s Seeker religion blog. Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

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