Constitutional Commandment: Virginia School Board Obeys First Amendment – At Least For Now

[Adsos Letter]

Source: The Wall of Separation
February 24th, 2011
By Joseph L. Conn.

Good news from Giles County, Va.! It looks as though local school board members may have decided not to waste precious financial resources on a church-state lawsuit they were almost certain to lose.

On Tuesday, Ten Commandments posters in all local schools came down.

That may mean the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Virginia ACLU will not be taking this constitutional violation into court.

According to The Roanoke Times, school board members had been warned that they could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending the religious displays, and there was a very strong chance that they would lose. The Supreme Court has barred school promotion of religion, including a specific decision holding that Commandments displays are unconstitutional.

LINK: http://blog.au.org/2011/02/24/constitutional-commandment-virginia-school-board-obeys-first-amendment-–-at-least-for-now/
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