A conservative attorney says churches meeting in New York's public schools will soon be evicted unless state lawmakers take action in the ongoing fight.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear a case, meaning a lower-court ruling against the churches stands -- that is unless lawmakers step up to the plate. S.B. 6087, state legislation that would allow the congregations to continue meeting in public schools, was unanimously passed by the Senate Education Committee late last month, and supporters are hopeful that the Assembly and the governor will follow suit.

But Jason McGuire, who heads New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (NYCF), warns that they are running out of time.

"We're really coming down to the wire, and some pressure needs to mount on the Assembly," he urges.

Montana's highest court has ruled in favor of a former Montana high school valedictorian who was banned from speaking at her graduation because her speech contained religious references.

Among Renee Griffith's planned comments were such statements as: "I didn't let fear keep me from sharing Christ and His joy with those around me" -- and "I learned not to be known for my grades...but for being committed to my faith and morals and being someone who lived with a purpose from God with a passionate love for Him." She was ordered by school officials to replace "Christ" with the words "my faith"; and to amend the other statement to say she "lived with a purpose, a purpose derived from my faith and based on a love of mankind."

Griffith, a co-valedictorian of her 2008 senior class, refused to do so and, consequently, was prevented from speaking at the ceremony...

Parents in Vallejo, California are up in arms over a plan for public schools to teach elementary students about homosexual relationships.

Angry parents are protesting the showing of the three films, That's a Family, Let's Get Real and Straightlaced, all of which promote the idea that same-sex relationships are just as normal as any other family structure. The videos are being mandated as part of a legal settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Vallejo Unified School District following an incident in which an openly homosexual student claimed she was being harassed by teachers and staff for her sexual orientation.

"The fact that they're just taking one group and providing films on them shows that this tends to be...a form of indoctrination," suggests Kevin Snider, chief counsel for the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI).

It's a "victory for plain old common sense," says a legal group in describing a court decision to keep the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The case before the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would have stopped recitation of the Pledge in New Hampshire's schools. But Eric Rassbach with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty tells OneNewsNow the court gave a solid ruling late last week.

"They rejected what is the latest in a series of attacks on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance -- and specifically [targeting] the words 'under God,'" the attorney explains...