Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar
The varsity cheerleaders at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School are getting their 15 minutes in the news media spotlight this week. Unfortunately, much of the sound-bite coverage may serve only to fuel the ignorance and strife over the role of religion in public schools.
In case you missed it, on Sept. 28 school officials in Catoosa County, Ga., reluctantly barred the cheerleaders…
