A California public school district has canceled a field trip to a Christian retreat center after the nation’s largest atheist legal group filed a complaint. The Dixie School District based out of San Rafael has reportedly nixed its plans for a fifth-grade field trip to the Alliance Redwoods Conference Center in Occidental, a Christian organization that has provided outdoor and science education opportunities to Northern California schools for over 30 years and serves 45,000 people annually.

The decision comes after the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates for a strict separation of church and state, sent a letter to Superintendent Jason Yamashiro last month. The letter, sent by attorney Elizabeth Cavell, argued that because the camp has an overtly Christian mission and only hires Christians, it is unconstitutional to send public school children there. READ MORE


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