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A Tennessee school district has agreed to tighten oversight of guest speakers following accusations that a high school assembly featuring a Memphis rapper crossed into unconstitutional religious promotion.
The controversy began when Haywood High School in Brownsville hosted Patrick Earl Houston, whose stage name is Project Pat, for a school-day assembly in December.
A Facebook post shared by Haywood High School on Dec. 5 thanked Houston and his ministry partner, Chris Smith, “for sharing important life lessons with our students,” and acknowledged that students received a copy of The Tongue: A Creative Force, a 1976 book by Word of Faith teacher Charles Capps.
Formerly linked with rap group Three 6 Mafia and the older brother of rapper Juicy J, Houston now leads the Go Foundation, a nonprofit prison ministry he launched in 2021 to take the Gospel to inmates at county jails and other facilities.
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The controversy began when Haywood High School in Brownsville hosted Patrick Earl Houston, whose stage name is Project Pat, for a school-day assembly in December.
A Facebook post shared by Haywood High School on Dec. 5 thanked Houston and his ministry partner, Chris Smith, “for sharing important life lessons with our students,” and acknowledged that students received a copy of The Tongue: A Creative Force, a 1976 book by Word of Faith teacher Charles Capps.
Formerly linked with rap group Three 6 Mafia and the older brother of rapper Juicy J, Houston now leads the Go Foundation, a nonprofit prison ministry he launched in 2021 to take the Gospel to inmates at county jails and other facilities.
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A Tennessee school district has agreed to tighten oversight of guest speakers following accusations that a high school assembly featuring a Memphis rapper crossed into unconstitutional religious