New Jersey School Graduation Offered Help by Liberty Counsel Against ACLU Threat

May 18, 2011

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Liberty Counsel has sent a letter offering pro bono representation to Neptune High School, after it was threatened by the ACLU with “legal recourse” for continuing the seventy-year-old tradition of having its graduation ceremonies at the Great Auditorium of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist organization. The ACLU demanded that the school either cover up all religiously affiliated signs and symbols or move the graduation to another venue entirely.

Liberty Counsel has published a legal memo regarding hosting public school graduations in churches or religious facilities. There is no reason for public school districts to stop using religious locations.

The ACLU has distorted the Constitution in order to boot out a graduation ceremony from a religious venue. Nothing in the Constitution bans graduation from being held in a church or other religious venue when such venue provides the best accommodation for the event.

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1. Forward this email to your friends so they will be informed about graduation prayer;

2. Tell us if you learn of a public school attempting to censor graduation messages;

3. Support our Friend or Foe Graduation Prayer Campaign.

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