Adapt to participation challenges profesor@s in the secondary weekly prayer group

The Association American humanist yesterday announced the filing of a federal lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a weekly prayer session Christian community of Christian students in Fayette, Missouri High School high school-sponsored. The complaint (full text) in the Association American humanist v. Fayette R-III school Distrct, (WD MO, filed 11/20/2013), alleges that the devotional meetings before the start of the first period in the classroom of Gwen Pope, Adviser to the Group of Christian students, violate the establishment clause. The plaintiffs say that the Pope participated in the sessions of prayer, in violation of school policy. Her husband, a former Minister of youth from a local Methodist Church also attended the sessions. The plaintiffs also allege that school principal supported and promoted the devotional gatherings.