Jefferson County Public Schools superintendent Donna Hargens sent out a memo regarding the indoctrination event held by LACES/Southeast at a JCPS facility: From: Fields, Sherry C. on behalf of Hargens, Donna Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 To: Jcps-Principals-All Subject: Guidance on Religion in Public Schools The event held last night in the Durrett Auditorium was [...]

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Yesterday, Six Flags Over Jesus held its kick-off event for training teachers to proselytize without getting caught. We wrote about it. Others have discussed it. And some of your local media got the story right – except WAVE3. Some excerpts… WDRB: “To step up your Christian influence in the education system so you can make [...]

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Does Kentucky’s new Religious Freedom Act really protect religion, or does it potentially cause discrimination? The issue is still raging weeks after the bill became law. Hint for WDRB: No, the debate isn’t still raging. There’s no additional religious protection but there is the ability to discriminate, thanks to the bill. [WDRB] The city and [...]

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Of course you’re not surprised. But Joe Burks, a former assistant superintendent for Jefferson County Public Schools, is begging JCPS teachers to come to his “educational seminar” focused on sneaking his perverse brand of Christianity into their lesson plans: Every day, more than 100,000 students attend public schools in Louisville and Southern Indiana. Retired Jefferson [...]

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This is a big deal so we’re cross-posting from Page One. House Bill 279 has become a hot topic. All the liberal groups and gay organizations are wringing their hands wondering whether or not Governor Steve Beshear will veto the legislation. It won’t matter, as it passed both the State House and State Senate with [...]

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Really: Life begins at conception, according to the Catholic Church, but in a wrongful death suit in Colorado, a Catholic health care company has argued just the opposite. A fetus is not legally a person until it is born, the hospital’s lawyers have claimed in its defense. And now it may be up to the [...]

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We’re closer and closer to hitting our goal and launching our new project. Consider helping make that happen. [Support Our New Project!] The head of the Jefferson County School Board says busing students across town does not put them at higher risk for traffic accidents, and Friday’s bus crash is not causing JCPS to re-think [...]

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Here’s Eric Crawford’s first column for his fancy new non-newspaper employer. Probably not one that will make Gannett very happy. [FOX41] Republicans Kelly Downard and Jerry Miller, along with Democrat Mary Woolridge, said putting $500,000 of city tax dollars into the project is unacceptable to them, especially because the city has already committed to a [...]

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On Sunday, Local 619M of GCC/IBT (the union the C-J press people belong to) unanimously rejected the contract offered by Gannett and unanimously voted to seek a strike sanction. [Deep Kentucky Newspaper Thoughts] Louisville makes this list of the most religious cities in America. Northern Kentucky also makes the list, kinda. [HuffPo] Metro police are [...]

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Here’s the latest video from Fairness that focuses on christians: Not entirely sure that’s going to go over well outside the Golden Triangle. Still a decent effort.

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