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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Supreme Court s conservative majority sounded sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.The designer and her supporters say that ruling against her would force artists 鈥?from painters and photographers to writers and musicians 鈥?to do work that is against their beliefs. Her opponents, meanwhile, say that if she wins, a range of businesses will be able to discriminate, refusing to serve Black customers, Jewish or Muslim people, interracial or interfaith couples or immigrants, among others.Over more than two hours of spirited arguments, the justices repeatedly tested out what ruling for the designer could mean, using detailed and sometimes colorful hypothetical scenarios. Those included a Black Santa asked to take a picture with a child dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, a photographer asked to take pictures stanley travel mug for the Jewish dating website JDate and also the marital infidelity website Ashley Madison, and a food business called Grandma cups stanley Helen s Protestant Provisions. Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of three high court appointees of former President Donald Trump, desc stanley becher ribed Lorie Smith, the website designer in the case, as an individual who says she will sell and does sell to everyone, all manner of websites, but that she wont sell a website that requires her to express a view about marriage that she finds offe Gmtk Starbucks releases holiday-themed cups
For many 5-year-old kids across the country, kindergarten is an exciting first int stanley flasche roduction into the classroom. But this year, schools are grappling with growing COVID-19 cases and declining kinderga stanley website rten enrollment numbers. In terms of our kinder cohort, we usually have about 23,000 students registered in Miami-Date County schools for kindergarten. Right now, as of this week, we have a total of 14,724 registered already for next year, said administrative director Berena Cabrera, with Miami-Date County Public Schools in Florida.Cabrera says the district is tackling a 40-percent decline in kindergarten enrollment, and other public schools across the country are dealing with a similar situation.At Visalia Unified School District in central California, kindergarten enrollment is down by 15 percent. At Poway Unified School District, near San Diego, they re seeing 5 percent less kindergarten students enrolling. Fulton County Schools in the Atlanta, Georgia area reports 12 percent less students are e stanley cup usa nrolled in kindergarten for the upcoming school year. Kindergarten is critical. It is the foundation of a successful student. And in Florida, it is mandatory for students to start kindergarten, said Cabrera.While kindergarten isn t mandatory in all states, educators agree it s an important beginning to a student s education. Rising coronavirus cases in communities combined with public schools having to tackle the virus head-on, has prompted some parents to turn to private kindergarten.
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Supreme Court s conservative majority sounded sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.The designer and her supporters say that ruling against her would force artists 鈥?from painters and photographers to writers and musicians 鈥?to do work that is against their beliefs. Her opponents, meanwhile, say that if she wins, a range of businesses will be able to discriminate, refusing to serve Black customers, Jewish or Muslim people, interracial or interfaith couples or immigrants, among others.Over more than two hours of spirited arguments, the justices repeatedly tested out what ruling for the designer could mean, using detailed and sometimes colorful hypothetical scenarios. Those included a Black Santa asked to take a picture with a child dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, a photographer asked to take pictures stanley travel mug for the Jewish dating website JDate and also the marital infidelity website Ashley Madison, and a food business called Grandma cups stanley Helen s Protestant Provisions. Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of three high court appointees of former President Donald Trump, desc stanley becher ribed Lorie Smith, the website designer in the case, as an individual who says she will sell and does sell to everyone, all manner of websites, but that she wont sell a website that requires her to express a view about marriage that she finds offe Gmtk Starbucks releases holiday-themed cups
For many 5-year-old kids across the country, kindergarten is an exciting first int stanley flasche roduction into the classroom. But this year, schools are grappling with growing COVID-19 cases and declining kinderga stanley website rten enrollment numbers. In terms of our kinder cohort, we usually have about 23,000 students registered in Miami-Date County schools for kindergarten. Right now, as of this week, we have a total of 14,724 registered already for next year, said administrative director Berena Cabrera, with Miami-Date County Public Schools in Florida.Cabrera says the district is tackling a 40-percent decline in kindergarten enrollment, and other public schools across the country are dealing with a similar situation.At Visalia Unified School District in central California, kindergarten enrollment is down by 15 percent. At Poway Unified School District, near San Diego, they re seeing 5 percent less kindergarten students enrolling. Fulton County Schools in the Atlanta, Georgia area reports 12 percent less students are e stanley cup usa nrolled in kindergarten for the upcoming school year. Kindergarten is critical. It is the foundation of a successful student. And in Florida, it is mandatory for students to start kindergarten, said Cabrera.While kindergarten isn t mandatory in all states, educators agree it s an important beginning to a student s education. Rising coronavirus cases in communities combined with public schools having to tackle the virus head-on, has prompted some parents to turn to private kindergarten.
