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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

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Tuesday, December 23 2014

A threatened lawsuit may have backfired.

The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatened to sue the east Alabama town of Piedmont if it didn't change the theme of its Christmas parade from "Keeping Christ in Christmas." According to news reports, in a letter from FFRF Piedmont's mayor was told to find a "more appropriate, more inclusive, and constitutional theme" for the parade.

The theme "alienates non-Christians and others in Piedmont who do not in fact have a ‘strong belief in prayers’ by turning them into political outsiders in their own community,” according to FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel. “The sentiment of ‘Keeping Christ in Christmas’ does not qualify as a secular celebration.”

“It was a great theme,” Mayor Bill Baker responded. “I was totally shocked when I received the letter. It’s a small town. It’s a small Christmas parade. We didn’t think there would be any problems at all.”

This is the second time FFRF has threatened to sue this small town. Earlier this year, FFRF's target was the high school football team's prayer before games. That threat backfired, however, and rather than being "officially" led, everyone now just comes together on the field before games to recite the Lord's Prayer.

Once again, FFRF's threatened lawsuit seems to have backfired: The largest Christmas parade in Piedmont history was held this year, with countless floats prominently featuring signs proclaiming the true "Reason for the Season."

“Nothing has really changed,” the mayor said prior to the event. “We still have the same religious floats. We still have the churches. We still have the beauty queens. We’re still going to have this wonderful Christian parade regardless of if we have a theme or not.”

Source: Yellowhammernews.com
 

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