For nearly 25 years, Brad Johnson has displayed banners on the walls of his San Diego classroom. But the Poway Unified School District ordered him to remove some of them. Now the Thomas More Law Center is suing the school district in federal court, saying officials violated Johnson’s constitutional rights.
The banners contained phrases including: “In God We Trust,” “One Nation Under God,” “God Bless America,” “God Shed His Grace on Thee” and “All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator.”
“Cleansing our nation’s classrooms of our religious heritage and history and imposing viewpoint restrictions on speech to silence such expressions advance no legitimate educational purpose,” Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel for the law center, said in a statement.
“In fact, such actions undermine the primary purpose of public education: to prepare students for citizenship in our Republic.”
