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Liberty Institute Offers Ready Defense of Kansas School Board for Free
Against Anti-faith Group's Demands
SPEARVILLE, Kan., March 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week,
Liberty Institute attorneys offered to defend for free an historic
elementary school building in Spearville, Kansas-a town of about 800
people-against threats of legal action from the anti-religion group,
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), who recently
demanded demolition of a small cross atop of the Spearville Elementary
School building that has stood, without complaint, for almost 90
years.
"Kansans need to know this atheist group is being deceptive in its
suggestion that the Constitution requires Americans to whitewash over
our country's religious heritage," said Liberty Institute Senior
Counsel Jeremiah Dys. "We encourage Spearville Superintendent Stegman
and the Board of Education to courageously continue not to be
intimidated by AU's bullying tactics and to know that they have a
friend in Liberty Institute, willing to defend them for free."
Liberty Institute's letter, which can be read in its entirety here:
http://www.libertyinstitute.org/document.doc?id=134, was sent to
Superintendent Stegman and the entire Spearville Board of Education
soon after the Spearville Board of Education refused to answer AU's
repeated demands to remove a small cross from the top of Spearville
Elementary School. The school, originally built as a Catholic school
soon after the conclusion of World War I, was later donated to the
town of Spearville in 1975. Generations of Kansans have been educated
in Spearville Elementary School--without complaint until AU made its
demands earlier this year. Liberty Institute offers to provide pro
bono legal assistance to the Spearville Board of Education should AU
follow through on its threats of litigation.
Liberty Institute is a nonprofit legal group dedicated to restoring
and defending religious liberty across America - in our schools, for
our churches, in the military and throughout the public arena. Liberty
Institute's vision is to reestablish liberty in accordance with the
principles of our nation's founders. Visit www.LibertyInstitute.org
for more information.
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