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...public schools for meetings now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned two lower-court rulings prohibiting an evangelical Christian organization from holding sessions designed to spread the word to children on school property. The Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Good News Club of Milford, New York, granting the group, which urges children to "give God first place in your life," the right to meet after hours on public school grounds. The Milford school district had contended the group?s activities were tantamount to religious worship, and, citing separation of church and state, barred the club from...
...houses, parks and fairgrounds. But in recent years, the Missouri-based Fellowship has begun applying to have events in public elementary schools--usually right after classes. Hundreds of schools accepted the clubs without hesitation, while others--afraid of blurring the line between church and state--refused. When the Milford Central School District in upstate New York barred the local club four years ago, its leader, the Rev. Stephen Fournier, fought back. If the Boy Scouts could preach their moral message in the K-12 school's convenient location, he asked, why couldn't the club? Fournier lost in the lower...
Whatever the moral value of the clubs, there may be legal merit to their case. During oral arguments, the Supreme Court Justices seemed to sympathize with the club. Justice Stephen Breyer, considered a liberal, told the lawyer for the Milford school: "[It] sounds to me as if you are discriminating in free-speech terms against religion." If the Good News Club prevails, more clubs will undoubtedly pop up in still more schools. If it fails, clubs will probably have to withdraw from schools where they now meet, having pushed the mission a step...
That has been the case for Thomas Lynch, who has buried many of his Milford, Mich., neighbors as well as his mother and father. Lynch's 30 years of working at the family-owned Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors is the underpinning of his recent book of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality. Lynch says his parents' efforts to instill a sense of family loyalty paid off, and the complicated task of settling the estate among nine siblings ("And the IRS was like 3 1/2 brothers more," jokes Lynch) proceeded with mutual trust and respect...
...Hercilio Alves of Milford was arrested by CPD at 119 Willow St. for driving with a suspended license and passing a school...