Beaumont cheerleaders lawyer up to save Bible-themed banner messages

[TexasTowelie]

Some Kountze cheerleaders who want to continue to display Bible banners at high school football games have hired their own attorney because they do not want to be pitted against their school district in what a state representative this week called an effort at "imposing San Francisco liberalism in every community in Texas."

Attorney Tom Brandt, who represents the Kountze school district, said a group of cheerleaders has hired the Gibbs and Associates law firm to represent them in a legal fight that now involves the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

Brandt said he expects that firm to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court brief, in Hardin County's 356th District Court siding with Kountze ISD. He said the district has presented its case to the court stating that the district believes the banners should be allowed.

However, the district's legal reasoning for that opinion concerns Beaumont attorney David Starnes, who has been at the front of the year-long battle to permit the cheerleaders to display the banners.

More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Beaumont-cheerleaders-lawyer-up-to-save-4805392.php?cmpid=hpts .

[msongs]

1. great news, let's all post Koran banners and other religions too :-) nt

[TxDemChem]

2. That's right

I have no problem with a school displaying verses from the Bible, as long as they allow banners from other religions the same amount of displays AND lengths of displays. Heck, even nonbelievers should get in on the action. I don't know of any Satanists, but hell, let them do it too.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

3. Texas, it's a whole other country,

or is that, it's a whole other alternative reality? It's hard to tell.