According to the family's 2004 lawsuit, Nicole Bloodgood tried three times to get permission for Michaela to pass out the homemade fliers to other students at Nate Perry Elementary School. The flier, about the size of a greeting card, started out: "Hi! My name is Michaela and I would like to tell you about my life and how Jesus Christ gave me a new one."

Bloodgood's requests to school officials said that her daughter, now a sixth-grader, would hand them out only during "non-instructional time," such as on the bus, before school, lunch, recess and after school.

Liverpool officials said at the time there was "a substantial probability" that other parents and students might misunderstand and presume the district endorsed the religious statements in the flier, according to the lawsuit.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Tomayto-tomahto, but when does the gray line for religion and state become so blurry that no one can tell a real difference? How can it be said that this is ok because it is done on "non-instruction" but yet still be surrounded by school activities? And if so, why is then there not even a smidgeon of leeway in between those times? It makes no sense...but this argument rarely does.

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