PETITION TO CATOOSA COUNTY GEORGIA AND LAKEVIEW-FORT-OGLETHORPE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DENIA REESE TO REVERSE BAN ON STUDENT-INITIATED FREE SPEECH    Corroborating News Stories:    Superintendent defends banning Jesus banners by Cheerleaders    Georgia Citizens rally for Jesus to support Cheerleaders rights    ABC News Video: Bible Verses Banned from Football Field    Read summary of 1999 Chandler v. James case law here    List of School Board Members (Can anybody find their phone numbers?)    After signing the petition below, please call Superintendent Denia Reese to express your outrage, at 706-965-2297 (secretary) or 423-619-0837 (secretary cell) or email  questions@catoosa.k12.ga.us  or fax your complaint to "Ask Mrs. Reese" at 706-965-8930 fax.

We, the undersigned, express our dismay and outrage, that the Catoosa County School Superintendent Denia Reese

although claiming to be Christian herself, has wrongly interpreted the First Amendment to ban student-initiated free speech,

by censoring the Cheerleaders who had often displayed Bible verses on banners encouraging their football team,

but now are suddenly forbidden to exercise their First Amendment right to speak or display their own words on the field,

when the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals specifically ruled to protect student-initiated religious speech, even on school grounds,

in their 1999 Chandler vs. James case, which governs Georgia case law. 

Please reverse your ban, and restore the rights of Cheerleaders and any student groups to speak of their faith in Jesus Christ,

anywhere they walk on school grounds, without confining them to a "free speech zone" or an "illegal speech zone." 

The Bible is not a banned book, Jesus is not an illegal word, and evangelistic speech is not a crime. 

We pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.