An elementary school violated the U.S. Constitution when it prevented students from passing out “Bring Your Bible to School Day” flyers during lunch and recess, according to a new lawsuit.

The students, who are brothers in the fifth and second grade, wanted to had out the flyers to their friends at John R. Peterson Elementary School in Huntington Beach, Calif., but were told that both hours are considered “instructional blocks.” 

Bring Your Bible to School Day is an annual event each October and sponsored by Focus on the Family. 

“Plaintiffs believe that they have a constitutional right to distribute their Bring Your Bible to School Day promotional flyers at John R. Peterson Elementary School during recess, lunch and other non-instructional times,” says the federal lawsuit filed by the religious legal group Freedom X. 

The suit was filed on behalf of their parents, Jason and Holly Bausch. It claims the school’s policy violates the students’ constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and religion.

“Students, regardless of grade level, have a First Amendment right to express a religious viewpoint to another student, including the right to distribute religious flyers, without fear,” said Freedom X president and chief counsel Bill Becker. “One wonders how school administrators come to believe that the voluntary expression of…

The Wisconsin-based atheist group, Freedom From Religion Foundation, warned public schools not to take their students to the Creation Museum or the Ark Encounter Park because of their “overtly religious atmosphere.” 

CBN News reports that the FFRF sent over 1,000 letters to school districts across the country, many of them in Kentucky, warning them to stay away from these Christian attractions writing, “Public schools cannot organize trips for students to either the Creation Museum or the Ark Park. It is unacceptable to expose a captive audience of impressionable students to the overtly religious atmosphere of (Ken) Ham’s Christian theme parks.”

When the Ark Encounter founder Ken Ham heard about the FFRF’s letters, he decided to challenge them, noting that he would not stand for their “bullying and intimidation.”

Ham offered free admission to all public school teachers and students that come for “official public school trips.” 

He told Fox News, “The atheist groups like American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have been increasingly aggressive to restrict the free exercise of religion — particularly Christianity — and they’ve tried to brainwash people with an interpretation of the First Amendment…it does not mean that Christians are second class citizens.”

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A Presbyterian pastor who posted a sign calling homosexuality a sin and Bruce Jenner a man has been forced out of his California church.

Justin Hoke of Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church in Weed, Calif., said most members of the small congregation had promised to leave if he stayed. 

“It was determined that it would be in the best interest of the local body for us (TBPC and the Hoke family) to part ways,” Hoke wrote on his Facebook page Saturday. “I would like to add this, I did not want to leave, I did not quit, and I was willing to stay.”

Hoke had posted a sign in front of the church that read: “Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.”

It drew protests outside the church building and sparked coverage in local media, too, including a story in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Sacramento Bee. About two dozen people protested outside the church Jan. 6. The church is located about four and a half hours north of San Francisco.

“We’ve really had to refine our message to be one strictly of love and support for anyone who feels like they are the target of the sign,” protester Amelia Mallory told The Chronicle. “Debating religion is unproductive, for one, and we also don’t want anyone to feel like we are against Christianity as a whole. People are welcome to their own…

Florida state legislators recently introduced a new bill that will require the school districts to offer classes on religion and the Bible in public high schools.

House Bill 195 was filed by Florida House Democrat Kimberly Daniel last week and requires “each school district to offer specified courses relating to religion, Hebrew Scriptures, and the Bible to certain students as elective courses,” WFTV 9 reports.

Along with the study of the Bible, the bill states it will also allow for a “brief meditation period.” 

Teachers teaching these courses will be required to approach the subject in an objective matter as to adhere to state and federal laws. 

The bill states that all teachers must maintain “religious neutrality and accommodating the diverse religious views, traditions, and perspectives of all students in the school. A course offered pursuant to this section may not endorse, favor, or promote or disfavor or show hostility toward a particular religion, religious perspective, or nonreligious faith.”

The act, which will serve as an amendment to Florida’s 1003.45, F.S. law, will take effect July 1, the bill states.

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A photo was shared to Twitter on Thursday of a 10-year-old Canadian “drag kid” called Nemis Quinn Mélançon-Golden with a fully grown, adult drag queen who is completely naked.

According to CBN News, a London Magazine called Huck recently ran a piece about Mélançon-Golden, whose stage name is “Queen Lactacia,” marking him as the most famed “child drag star in Canada.”

The piece featured several photos of the young boy dressed in drag and surrounded by other drag queens. One photo that did not make the magazine’s article, but was still posted by Mélançon-Golden to social media and was later re-uploaded to Twitter, features the 10-year-old posing with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Violet Chachki who was fully naked minus a small cloth covering his genitals, drag makeup and a wig.

As soon as the photo was posted, it received immediate backlash from people from all walks of life, some Twitter users even shared that they reported the Tweet. 

One Twitter user wrote, “SOOO sad and disturbing that this is glamourized as something admirable in a sick a twisted facet of our society. It’s one thing for a person (adult) to do this, but a child is a child and this should be considered a crime.”

Another commented, “This can’t be real, trans/ drag/ gay or straight, this should no way be done, a young kid with a naked adult, apart from the…