Ruling favors free speech, religion on school grounds

One News Now: A federal court has issued an order that halts an Arkansas school district policy used by school officials to deny a third-grader and her mother permission to hand out flyers for church-sponsored activities . . . Cortman says there is a lot of public misinformation about religious speech. “There’s a widespread need for schools to be educated on what the First Amendment means,” he states. “The so-called separation of church and state does not justify censorship about religious speech, even though that’s what’s popularly thought.”