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Howdy  {{Email}},  

        January began the assembling of this years state legislatures.  Hisways has identified these two biblical and religious freedom needs that are lacking in our public schools, and, I wanted to share these needs with you.  I have made an outline to easily accomplish the goal. 
        I left the background info of both freedom needs in this one page because if you choose one of the freedom needs you will probably find it useful to copy & paste the same info and resources to bring your contact's knowledge up to date for their consideration.  The strategy is to inform them of the truth, legality and necessity of the neglected freedom(s); let them evaluate the existing text and leave it up to them to address the need.

 I.  Please say a sincere prayer about:

  1. Conversing with or encouraging a friend, family member or representative regarding one of the suggested activities below.
  2. Selecting a specific suggested activity below that would fit best with your special person in #1.
  3. If you don't get an answer, please pray about it later and save our Online page link to your To-Do list.

II.  The Special Freedom Laws

    There are TWO very Special Freedom Laws that are appropriate for schools at this time i.e. Bible textbook freedoms and Religious freedoms.  The activity doesn't depend upon creating something from scratch because the items below have already been created by attorneys, politicians or conservatives.  They just need to be shown i.e. emailed to the special person(s) so that they may be encouraged to simply start the process. 
  1. Freedom 1.:  The Elective Social Studies Class With The Bible As The Textbook in every school in the state (see explanations in Item III below.).
  2. Freedom 2.:  The comprehensive religious liberty policy for all school boards in the state (see explanations in Item IV below.).
  3. The sentiments of these acts should be encouraged in your current resident state or your home state.

III.  The Elective Social Studies Class With The Bible As The Textbook Activity.

        The Elective Social Studies Class With The Bible As The Textbook activity has two pieces of information below.  The purpose of the 1st item is to provide a link to a current article on an Elective Social Studies Class where the links provide the text of the bill.  The purpose of the 2nd item is to provide a link that shows that "similar laws" are already in 6 states; and to show that these states understand that the state has a compelling interest to permit an Elective Bible Class.  Both of these links should be enough to educate and encourage that special someone that is not currently knowledgeable about the legality or popularity of Bibles in public school curriculum but could get the law to your legislature.  
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  1. Proposed bill would require West Virginia schools to offer Bible class By WSAZ News Staff ; WHSV newsroom : Posted: Mon 5:02 PM, Jan 15, 2018  Senate Bill 252 (Existing WV Text), sponsored by State Senators Mike Azinger and Sue Cline, would apply to private schools, as well as public ones.
  2. FYI:  Iowa Public School Students Could Soon be Studying Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament Talia Wise : Jan 30, 2018 : CBN News  Similar laws have passed in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.  
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        The Elective Social Studies Class With The Bible law recommended for Florida could be somewhat improved to fortify it against the Secular Humanists religion.  The Secular Humanists and their mantra of "separation of church and state" is so pervasive throughout the education industry, I thought some incentives should be included.  The two incentives that you might consider for your "encouragement email" are listed below.
  1. Graduation credits multiplier:  Since the schools do not advertise their classes to the public or promote elective classes, how can the state's compelling interest be used to incentivize kids and parents to register for the Elective Social Studies Class that uses the Bible? or What incentives are there to keep it self-sustaining?  Would it be feasible to award the "Bible classes" a multiplier of 1.5 or 2.0 toward graduation credits?
  2. Continuing education units (CEUs): Regarding Bibles in Schools and the "separation" mantra which effectively censors the 1st Amendment freedoms of students, parents, teachers and administrators, a proposal for continuing education units (CEUs) is offered.  The Gateways ? to Better Education  through their Faith, Freedom & Public Schools ?Workshop has designed the first Educator Workshop to educate all school personnel on the legal and illegal activities of the 1st Amendment as it pertains to schools.  Does the state's compelling interest make it possible to award continuing education units (CEUs) for teachers and administrators for this workshop or CEUs for an equivalent workshop?
  3. Example:  Here is an example of an email to the WV senator regarding CEUs and elective class credit multipliers.  Note the recommended style of "Honorable" salutation and complete address of the rep. and (your) complete contact address at the bottom.  WV's Sen. Michael Azinger SB252 Bible Class.  If you want to use this email for a template be sure that you edit the parts that are not your experience.
  4. Can you think of any better or any other incentives?
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IV.  The Model School Board Policy on Religion Activity.

        The Model School Board Policy on Religion Activity is a Florida law that became effective June 1, 2017 regarding religious expression for all public schools in the state.  The link to the FL law text is available for reading and emailing to your special person(s) from your prayer in Item I.  The essential process of the law is described in paragraph (6).
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  1. The complete text of the law is available from FL archives here:  Religious ? Expression in Public Schools, (Chapter No. 2017-74) (Archives) scroll down to ?Ch_2017-074.pdf or download the law in pdf format:  Ch_2017-074.pdf ) which says in part:.
    • ? (6)  The Department of Education shall develop model policy regarding a limited public forum and voluntary expression of religious viewpoints by students and school personnel in ? public schools pursuant to this section.  The department shall ?publish the model policy on its website.  ...
  2. The Result:  of FL Dept. of Ed.'s process, although not yet completed, should look very similar to the Model Policy that was developed by Liberty Counsel (www.lc.org) and adopted by the Pinellas County School Board.  Here is the text of The Model Policy:  ModelReligionPolicy.html
  3. Continuing education units (CEUs): Regarding Religion in schools, since the pervasive "separation" mantra effectively censors the 1st Amendment freedoms of students, parents, teachers and administrators, a proposal for continuing education units (CEUs) is offered.  The Gateways ? to Better Education  through their Faith, Freedom & Public Schools ?Workshop has designed the first Educator Workshop to educate all school personnel on the legal and illegal activities of the 1st Amendment as it pertains to religion in schools.  Does the state's compelling interest make it possible to award continuing education units (CEUs) for teachers and administrators for this workshop or CEUs for an equivalent workshop?
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Resources:

Here are some Notes, additional links and resources for composing an email or letter.
  1. If you are not familiar with writing emails or letters to your state representatives and would like to write to them directly in an email or letter, you can cut and paste from this page.  Then edit to suit your audience and ...
  2. You can find your 2 state legislative District numbers on you voter registration card, then you can find their address. Or 
  3. You can search for your state here: Find my representatives Search  In the search terms field just remove "my" and insert your state abbreviation and search on names or your District numbers.
  4. You can find their names, addresses and email addresses on your state legislature's website.
  5. Try using a subject line like  "elective social studies class where the Bible is the textbook" or "religious expression freedoms in schools".
  6. Be sure to modify any cut & paste text to relate your expectations of the expressed goals.
  7. Here is a link to a calendar item you can import:  SpecialFreedoms.ics
  8. The "-" dashes before and after the div boxes facilitate copying the complete div box with borders.  If you don't copy the beginning and last dashes around the div "box", it will not copy the box borders.



Remember:  
The only gun-free zones and Bible-free zones are in public schools.  Lets fix i.e. reverse both of them.

This is America "using all of the tools".
This is America asking God to intercede.  II Chronicles 7:14  "If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray ..."
Epilogue:
        It should be noted that these activities completely envelope our motto:  "Returning the Bible and Wisdom principles to our public school children under the 1st Amendment."  Returning the (Elective Bible class) and Wisdom Principles (in the Relgious Expression liberties policy) to our public school children (under the 1st Amendment)  which is the 1st of 10 liberties expressly  unalienable and derived from God which should definitely have (CEUs) provided for government school employees to avoid any practice of bias.

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