The ACLU has filed suit over the controversial religious banner hanging in Rhode Island's Cranston High School West. The banner has been in the school auditorium since 1963. Recent efforts to remove it on church-state grounds were met with a fierce public outcry. The school committee ultimately decided to leave it in place and fight any lawsuit that comes along. Now, inevitably, one has.
The Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the suit on behalf of a Cranston West sophomore, says the display violates Jessica Ahlquist’s constitutional rights and the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, and makes her feel “excluded, ostracized and devalued by her school because she does not share or agree with the religious expression conveyed by the prayer.” Jessica is an atheist.
You can read the ACLU's complaint here.
