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Students Participate In Bring Your Bible To School Day

Young Christians across the nation participated in the outreach called “Bring Your Bible To School Day.”

The event, sponsored by Focus on the Family and Day of Dialogue, is “designed to empower Christian students who have a heart for sharing Christ’s love and express a Biblical perspective on current-day issues with peers.”

Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family, said the event was aimed to encourage students to engage their peers on matters of faith.

“We believe truth rises to the surface when honest conversations and a free exchange of ideas are allowed to happen,” Cushman told The Christian Post.“It equips the next generation of Christian leaders with confidence that the Gospel of Christ speaks into even the most sensitive cultural issues.”

The event is also designed to show teachers and other staff at the schools that students do not leave their religious freedom at the school house door.

“Federal courts have repeatedly upheld the rights of students to bring their Bibles to school, to distribute Bibles at school, and to discuss the Bible at school during non-instructional time,” the legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) explained in a legal memo surrounding today’s observance.

“Christian students don’t abandon their constitutionally protected freedoms at the schoolhouse gate,” ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco told Christian Post. “Their freedom to express their beliefs includes the right to bring their Bible to school, to read it during their free time, and to engage in other activities as part of ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day.’”

Google Eliminates Pornographic Ads

Google has announced that it will no longer allow advertising to depict sexual acts and other types of pornography.

The company sent an e-mail to advertising accounts saying that anyone using the Google AdWords system that it will restrict ads containing or linking to any sexually explicit content.  The announcement follows a meeting in May between Google and groups such as Morality in Media, Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family.

“We are grateful that they are realizing that their profits from porn are not worth the devastation to children and families,” Morality in Media said in a statement.

In addition to the new restrictions on advertising, Google has increased policies for apps that can be sold through the Google Play store.  Apps that contain or promote sexually explicit or erotic content are no longer permitted and Google has removed several apps from the site that violated those policies.

Google has been part of the “Dirty Dozen” list released each year by PornHarms.com, a listing that shows the biggest contributors to sexual exploitation in America.  Google is on the 2014 list, released just before the announcement of the changes.  Other major companies on the list include Verizon, Barnes & Noble and Cosmopolitan magazine.