Village Tyrants Tell Third Grader You Must Wear a Mask, But Not One That Says "Jesus Loves Me"

 

                                             Lydia Wearing Her Censored Mask

Jennifer Booth usually picks her younger children up after school. Her youngest, Roman, is in kindergarten, and Lydia is in the third grade. One day last October, the two came running and piled into the car, breathless as usual with the events of the day.

“Mama,” Lydia said, “I’ve got bad news.” Her computer lab teacher, she said, had warned her against continuing to wear her favorite mask. The one that has “Jesus Loves Me” printed on it.

“She just said it,” Lydia remembers, “a little angry, but not much. She told me not to wear it again.

Although the school allowed children to wear all sorts of masks with all sorts of messages, it decided that religious messages were not permitted. Lydia's parents took a stand for the First Amendment and contacted Alliance Defending Freedom. 

And to make a long story short, Lydia is now allowed to wear her "Jesus Loves Me" mask to school. If you wish to practice social justice law, working with ADF is a great way to do it.

We will soon be studying free speech in public schools.

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