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Ohio High Schoolers Fight Removal of God From School Mission Statement

By Howard M. Friedman

In Uniontown, Ohio, the school board last month voted to change the school's mission statement to temporarily remove "belief in God" from the school district's mission statement after a complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation. (See prior posting.) Fox 8 News Cleveland yesterday reported on efforts of two high school students, Mackenzie Muchalk and Alex Looney, who are fighting the school board's move. They are selling T-shirts that read: "We value a belief in God" on the front and, on the back, "They can take his name out of our mission statement but they can NEVER take Him out of our hearts." They want the audience at next month's school board meeting to attend wearing the T-shirts. Muchalk says: "We just want to stand up to who we think of as bullies." FFRF retorts that it is the Christians in the community who are the "bullies."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).