VIDEO: NY High Schooler Wins Appeal to Paint Christian Themes on School Parking Spot

From breibart.com

 

A high school senior near Buffalo, New York, has won after pushing back against her public school’s decision not to allow her to decorate her paid parking spot with Christian references.

Sabrina Steffans’ original designs for her senior parking place were rejected, but when First Liberty Institute stepped in to join the fight, the Grand Island Central School District reversed course, CBN News reported Wednesday.

After the school district was threatened with litigation, they decided Steffans is free to use a religious design on school property.

Steffans said she initially entered three of her drawings, noting “the first drawing was a drawing of this mountain called Salvation Mountain. And when I handed it in, they said… completely no to it because it had crosses, a Bible verse, and just a lot of religion that they said that wasn’t allowed.”

Her final drawing was accepted but it did not feature any religious elements. That was when she contacted First Liberty, which sent a demand letter to the district addressing the issue. She was then approved to use her original design, according to WKBW.

Keisha Russell, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, said the firm was pleased about the school district’s reversal, adding, “The First Amendment protects students’ private expressions of faith in public schools.”

Steffans was glad for the final decision and realizes age does not matter when it comes to doing the right thing.

“Just because you’re young doesn’t mean you don’t have power to bring change into your schools and into your life,” she stated, adding, “I was shocked that they even picked the very first one of all of them, so I was just really ecstatic to hear it. I was kind of freaking out, thinking, ‘Oh, this is so exciting!’ I got the paints the day of, and I was just so excited to paint and everything.”

In a social media post on Saturday, Rev. Franklin Graham praised the teenager for her “desire to share God’s love” with other people.

First Liberty noted that Steffans leads a Bible club at the school and expresses her Christian faith through art.

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Katonti – A Tribute to Fallen Heroes – Please Watch, Listen and Share

Lyrics:

I stood among the rows of stone Each name a soul, each grave a throne

The silence thundered in my chest So many gave so we could rest

I saw the flag upon the bier A lion fallen, without fear

And in the crowd, a sea of pain We wept for one, for all the slain

[Chorus]

Katonti—I am small before their light

Their courage burning through the night They gave their breath, their final cry So we could live, so we could try

Katonti—before such love so true What can I give for what they do? I saw the hostages come home From darkest pits to light and song

We danced, we sang, we laughed, we prayed Not knowing yet the price was paid

The joy and sorrow intertwine Like bitter tears in sweetest wine The same old story, told anew

One falls… and raises up the few

[Chorus] Katonti—but still I lift my eyes The Shepherd hears our broken cries And though the night feels long and deep He guards the ones He swore to keep I’ll hold their memory like a flame And walk the path they lit—in God’s name [Reprise

Chorus] Katonti—but hope is burning bright We’ll see the dawn beyond this night And though we mourn, we still believe Peace will come — in our days, speedily Katonti… but still we dream and pray

That we will see shalom someday

BOOM! SAUDI ARABIAN PUBLICLY BLASTS “PALESTINIANS” IN SCATHING VIDEO

From israelunwired.com

By Phil Schneider

The most common criticism of what Israel has supposedly done to the supposed “palestinians” in what has been coined “palestine” is that Israel has stolen the Land from those who have an indigenous claim to the Land. This triple lie should be studied in marketing courses across the world in order to study how an alternative reality can be created out of thin air in order to promote a specific cause.

The Arabs who live in Israel today are nearly all originally from Egypt, Syria, or other countries in the Middle East. They chose to move to the area under the Ottoman Empire that is near the Mediterranean in order to have a better life. Most of them moved in the late 19th century or early 20th century when the Jewish people began their return. The Jewish pioneers had a few major supporters who helped them finance their efforts to bring the Land back to life. Arabs from neighboring countries took heed and found out that they could live better near the Jewish pioneers than where they were living in other areas under the Ottoman Empire.

The concept of a unique “palestinian people” was usually not used. If it was used, it was generally in order to refer to the Jewish people. The Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post before the State of Israel was founded in 1948. The Palestine theatre was a Jewish theatre. Arabs rarely used the term Palestine. Jews did.

But in the early and especially the late 60’s, the Arabs who lived in and around the State of Israel decided that they need to create a new national entity in order to claim national rights to the Land. It has certainly taken root among the younger generation of Arabs in and around Israel. But what drives it is not the nationalism of the 19th century. It is the age-old anti-Jewish hatred that has been alive and well as long as the Jewish people exist.

But even those who have bought into the idea of a legitimate nationalism of a nation of so-called “palestinians” cannot deny today that what truly drives those who yell and scream “from the river to the sea” is the genuine intention to drive the Jewish people out of the Land of Israel and into the sea. Israel has one choice and only one choice. Fight back or be driven into the sea.