Christian Group WINS Big After School District Allegedly Targeted Bible Program

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The CEO of a Christian organization that teaches the Bible to kids during the public school day is celebrating a recent legal victory against a school district he believes was unfairly restricting his group's efforts. As CBN News recently reported, a federal judge has stepped in to temporarily halt seemingly blatant anti-Christian discrimination waged against Lifewise Academy at the hands of Everett Public Schools, a public district in Washington state. Joe Penton, who heads Lifewise, told CBN about his organization's aim and why he believes the district began taking aim at their activities. "We provide Bible education for public school students during school hours," Penton said. "We take kids under release time — religious instruction laws and the Supreme Court ruling — we take kids off school property during the school day, teach them a Bible lesson, and bring them back to school." Lifewise has quickly spread throughout the US, with one program emerging a few years ago in Everett,

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