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Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  May 11, 2005 12:18pm
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MediaNewspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune
News DateWednesday, May 11, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFriday, May 06, 2005
James Gill


The ACLU is probably right in arguing that nothing short of jail will persuade the Tangipahoa School Board to quit that old-time religion.

But if U.S. Judge Ginger Berrigan does as the ACLU urges, and sentences a board member, a principal and a course adviser to the slammer, they will march in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Simple rustics will journey prayerfully across the lake and throng the streets outside the federal courthouse waving placards. Politicians will be falling over each other to denounce Berrigan and the ACLU's Louisiana director Joe Cook as agents of Beelzebub.

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