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Can a Teacher Put John 3:16 in Email Signature? District Says No; Her Lawyers Say Yes

“The hostility of the secular left towards the Christian faith is chilling and clearly indicates where so-called ‘progressives’ want to take our nation,” said Ed Vitagliano, executive vice president of the conservative organization. “They want to drive our faith into the shadows and punish any and all public expression of it.”

Americans United for Separation of Church and State told Religion News Service that the district’s stance is appropriate.

“A teacher’s work emails are official governmental communications and, therefore, cannot legally contain religious content,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of the Washington-based organization.

“As is customary for them, Liberty Counsel is taking court cases out of context in order to distort the First Amendment to remove the separation of church and state. Loudoun County Public Schools has a duty to ensure that school officials are not abusing school resources to impose their personal religion on others, and that includes official emails sent from official school district email accounts.”

Lawyers for the teacher said she proposed an alternative verse from Proverbs — “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” They said it was also rejected because it was from the Bible.

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