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  <updated>2008-08-07T16:00:29-05:00</updated>
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    <title>Pat Robertson: Bolshevism Behind Ruling Against Missionaries in Classroom</title>
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    <published>2008-01-11T16:33:33-06:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T16:00:29-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
    </author>
    <category term="First Amendment" />
    <category term="Liberty Counsel" />
    <category term="Mat Staver" />
    <category term="Missouri" />
    <category term="Pat Robertson" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A federal judge <a title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01">ruled</a> this week that the school district of rural Annapolis, Missouri could no longer let Gideons   International hand out Bibles in an elementary school, and Pat Robertson is <a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIBYJ7sTaDQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIBYJ7sTaDQ">none too pleased</a>. From   yesterday&rsquo;s &ldquo;700 Club&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>According to Robertson, the ACLU   doesn&rsquo;t have enough to do since it lost its &ldquo;raison d&rsquo;etre,&rdquo; Communism, and so   now &ldquo;they say their main goal is to take religion out of the public square.&rdquo; </p>
<p>Robertson also complains that &ldquo;one   or two atheists can strip a whole community of its deeply-held religious views.&rdquo;   As a matter of fact, the parents who sued the school board <a title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01">are   Christians</a>, but in any event we expect Christianity to survive in eastern   Missouri even   without the local government working to convert   fifth-graders.</p>
<p>The right-wing Liberty Counsel,   which represented the school, plans to appeal.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A federal judge <a title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01">ruled</a> this week that the school district of rural Annapolis, Missouri could no longer let Gideons   International hand out Bibles in an elementary school, and Pat Robertson is <a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIBYJ7sTaDQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIBYJ7sTaDQ">none too pleased</a>. From   yesterday&rsquo;s &ldquo;700 Club&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>According to Robertson, the ACLU   doesn&rsquo;t have enough to do since it lost its &ldquo;raison d&rsquo;etre,&rdquo; Communism, and so   now &ldquo;they say their main goal is to take religion out of the public square.&rdquo; </p>
<p>Robertson also complains that &ldquo;one   or two atheists can strip a whole community of its deeply-held religious views.&rdquo;   As a matter of fact, the parents who sued the school board <a title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuWxzSvp6gUjpbkFiGf9PbXyV4PQD8U2IBB01">are   Christians</a>, but in any event we expect Christianity to survive in eastern   Missouri even   without the local government working to convert   fifth-graders.</p>
<p>The right-wing Liberty Counsel,   which represented the school, plans to appeal.</p>
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