{"id":11101,"date":"2014-04-19T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2014-04-19T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:24:33","slug":"1st-amendment-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11101","title":{"rendered":"1ST AMENDMENT THROWDOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local high school here finds itself in a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewscenter.tv\/home\/headlines\/Parkersburg-South-Wrestling-T-Shirts-Draw-Attention-255706021.html\">jam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parkersburg South&#8217;s wrestling season is over.<\/p>\n<p>But now the wrestling team is pinned over its tee shirts.<\/p>\n<p>South&#8217;s wrestling team has tee shirts that have a Bible verse on the back.<\/p>\n<p>It says &#8220;I can do all things through Him who strengthens me&#8221; &#8211; Philippians 4:13.<\/p>\n<p>The wrestlers wore those shirts during their most recent season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Him&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bible.ca\/ef\/expository-philippians-4-13(3).htm\">usually translated<\/a> &#8220;Christ.&#8221;  If the kids were wearing the shirts as part of their uniforms, this would clearly be a violation of the Establishment Clause.  And even if they&#8217;re just wearing them around school, it&#8217;s questionable since the front reads &#8220;Parkersburg South Wrestling.&#8221;  The Superintendent made the right call to ban the shirts, but now a family has retained a lawyer because, they claim, <i>their<\/i> 1st Amendment free speech rights are being infringed.  <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I&#8217;m not buying it.  The wrestling team has been wearing shirts with that same verse for 15+ years.  That seems, to me, to make it something of an unoffical team motto.  And, therefore, forbidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local high school here finds itself in a bit of a jam: Parkersburg South&#8217;s wrestling season is over. But now the wrestling team is pinned over its tee shirts. South&#8217;s wrestling team has tee shirts that have a Bible verse on the back. It says &#8220;I can do all things through Him who strengthens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11107,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions\/11107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}