The Freedom From Religion Foundation said Wednesday that it would
continue to fight an Ohio school board that said it would not remove a
large portrait of Jesus that has been inside a middle school since 1947.
"There's really no gray area here," Andrew Seidel, a staff attorney
for the foundation, told FoxNews.com. "This is a blatant infringement on
our First Amendment rights."
The activist group dedicated to the separation of church and state
notified the school district recently that the painting hanging above
the entrance of Jackson Middle School is an illegal endorsement of
Christianity and should be taken down.
During a school board meeting Tuesday night that drew a crowd of 300
people, superintendent Phil Howard said the painting has historical
significance and will stay put.
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