Making Sense of Religion in America's Public Schools

David Gibbs III · Barbara Weller

abr 2013 · Primedia E-launch LLC

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In 1947, the United States Supreme Court took a sharp left turn in its interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it was applied to public schools in America. Since then, students, teachers, school officials, parents, and local religious leaders have been struggling to understand the parameters of the Establishment Clause as it relates to religious expression in public schools. This resource is intended to help individuals understand their rights to exercise their faith in the public school arena. It is also designed to help families, students, teachers, school officials, and community leaders sort through the current legal maze of religious expression in America’s public schools.

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Attorney David C. Gibbs III is President and General Counsel for the National Center for Life and Liberty, defending Consitutional freedoms nationwide. Mr. Gibbs speaks regularly to audiences in churches and conferences while also litigating cases as a trial attorney. He is a legal contributor to Fox News, hosts the weekly radio program Law Talk Live on the Moody Radio Network, and has authored five books including Fighting for Dear Life and Understanding the Constitution. Attorney Gibbs graduated from Duke Law School and manages the Gibbs Law Firm with offices in Dallas, Texas; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Washington, D.C. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and numerous federal circuit and district courts nationwide. He has also been admitted to the State Bars of Florida, Minnesota, Colorado, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, and the District of Columbia. Attorney Barbara J. Weller has been an attorney with the Gibbs Law Firm for nearly twenty years. Her specialty is Constitutional Law, focusing on First Amendment, religion, and free speech issues both generally and as they affect public schools. She has been a guest lecturer in university education classes and has taught seminars on religion and free speech for public school teachers. In addition to graduating from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Attorney Weller graduated from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, with an education degree. She has a Master's Degree in Old Testament Studies from Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, and has also studied at McGill University in Montreal, Canada; at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. She taught Kindergarten in a public elementary school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and served as a substitute teacher at all grade levels in both public and private school settings prior to attending law school.