June 2014 - Members of the senior class at a high school in Virginia defied a demand to remove a

Christian song from their graduation ceremony, which would have ended a 70-plus year tradition at the
school. Students at Thomas Walker High School in Ewing lined up after receiving their diplomas, linked
arms and began to sing God Be with You Til We Meet Again, a song that has been sung during
graduation since the school was founded in 1940. Members of the audience began to sing along, and
some clapped in support of the students stand for their faith.

April 2014 - Austin Grayson attended the Cannon County REACH after school program. During the
course of the program he was told he couldn't read his Bible during a free reading period. His mother
stated that "He had pulled his bible out and he was told to put it away". "When he was told to put it
away, he recited the First Amendment." Koepfgen said the staff at the REACH program told her because
the program is funded by the state, Austin wasn't allowed to read religious materials.

April 2014 Larry Turner, 56, an acclaimed high school baseball coach, with 32-year tenure, is under fire
for allegedly leading his team in prayers before games. The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF),
which is urging the superintendent of the school to put an end to the pre-game prayer, asserted that the
prayers are a serious violation of the First Amendment.

2013 - TV sports commentator, Craig James, was terminated for publically expressing quite commonly
held religious beliefsoff the worksite, over a year before his employment began. The implications are
immense. This client was deemed unemployable for his personal and traditional beliefs.

September 2013 - When 10-year-old Erin Shead received a school assignment to write about her idol, it
was an easy decision, she chose to write about God. Her teacher then proceeded to reject the
assignment due to its religious content, telling Erin it was inappropriate to have God as her idol for the
assignment.

July 2013 - Audrey Jarvis, a student at Sonoma State University, was working for the universitys
Associated Students Production organization at a student orientation fair. At the event, her supervisor
told her to remove her cross necklace. The supervisor told Jarvis that the chancellor had a policy against
wearing religious items and said the cross necklace might offend others, it might make incoming
students feel unwelcome, or it might cause incoming students to feel that ASP was not an organization
they should join.

June 2013 - When graduating high school senior and valedictorian Remington Reimer began to deviate
from his pre-approved speech and began to talk about the Constitution and the role God played in his
life. At that point, school officials ordered the microphone to be cut off. Following this, the principal
threatened to derail Mr. Reimers appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy.

March 2013 - When a professor instructed his students to write Jesus on a piece of paper, put the
paper on the floor and stomp on it, student Ryan Rotela, a deeply religious Mormon who attends church
weekly, was offended and refused to participate. Later, the public university informed Ryan that he had
been suspended from class. Rotela was charged with an alleged violation of the student code of
conduct, acts of verbal, written or physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion or other
conduct which threaten the health, safety or welfare of any person and ordered not to return to class.


October 2012 - In an effort to share positive and uplifting messages with their football players, the
middle school and high school cheerleaders in Kountze, Texas, made a team decision to paint Bible
verses on run-through banners at games. In response, school district officials ordered the cheerleaders
to stop putting Bible verses on the banners, because they believed doing so violated the law on religious
expression at public school events.

2012 - The American Legion and the American Legion Post 290 of King, North Carolina, in a battle over
the constitutionality of a veterans memorial that includes a kneeling solider before a cross grave marker
in Kings popular Central Park area. (This is one of many cases active today.)

2011 - Officials in a rural north Florida county must remove a granite monument of the Ten
Commandments from the front of its courthouse because it violates the constitution, a federal judge has
ruled.

Not to mention how many people are afraid to even mention religion or their beliefs in the workplace or
public arena for fear they will be sued for discrimination.