Friday, June 01, 2012

Atheist Valedictorian’s Complaints Lead TX High School to Ban 99-Year Graduation Prayer Tradition

After a church-state separatist group sent a warning notice, Poteet High School in Poteet, Texas, will be scrapping a traditional invocation and benediction that has been part of commencement ceremonies for decades. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization that works to segregate religion and government, contacted the Poteet Independent School District after a student complained about the presence of religion in the school’s graduation ceremony.

MORE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/atheist-valedictorians-complaints-lead-tx-high-school-to-ban-99-year-graduation-prayer-tradition/