<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/281587ac-2bd6-42ca-995e-ee9be6a4eea4/3A4DEB0B-F14C-444C-99B5-2315095775D1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220" style="font-size: 11px;">www.onenewsnow.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220">Speaking up for a 'moment of silence'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220"><P align="left"><IMG hspace="3" height="125" border="0" align="right" width="120" vspace="3" src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/prayer ban.jpg" alt="prayer ban" title="prayer ban" />Attorneys are preparing to defend Illinois' "period of silence" law for public schools.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220"><DIV>Earlier this year, a federal judge struck down the law as a violation of the supposed "separation of church and state" because the law was "unconstitutionally vague."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220"><DIV> Is it true the original lawsuit was filed by one atheist who objects? "It is correct," the attorney responds. "I think this is a perfect example of how radical the ACLU and their allies are. They even oppose a moment of silence if there's just a chance that someone may choose to pray."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220"><DIV> David Cortman of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/" title="Alliance Defense Fund">Alliance Defense Fund</A> -- which this week filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the law -- explains that under the law, students are not required to pray and teachers are not involved.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=736220">Three other federal appeals courts have upheld moment of silence laws passed in other states. The Seventh U.S. Circuit is being asked to do the same with the Illinois statute.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A4DEB0B-F14C-444C-99B5-2315095775D1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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