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Court: TX Cheerleaders Can Use Bible

go team bible!

On school sports signs.

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Religious cheerleaders, rejoice. A Texas court ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders in a small town are allowed to display Bible verses on banners at football games. A judge ruled the their actions didn't violate the Constitution after controversy began in September when the Freedom From Religion Foundation got a complaint about the banners and the superintendent banned them. The cheerleaders sued the school district, arguing their religious and free-speech rights were being violated.

Read it at The Los Angeles Times