(Christian News Network) – A Scripture citation written on a retaining wall at a public school in California has been painted over following receipt of a complaint from one of the nation’s most conspicuous professing atheist organizations. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had submitted the letter to the Muroc Joint Unified School District, northeast of Los Angeles, in February, outlining that a “concerned parent” had alerted the organization last summer that “Hebrews 13:20-21”
was written on the cement block wall near the main office of Desert Junior-Senior High School. “The district violates the Constitution when it allows its schools to display religious symbols or messages. Public schools may not advance, prefer or promote religion,” the correspondence read. “This display violates this basic constitutional prohibition by creating the appearance that the district prefers religion over non-religion and Christianity over all faiths.” READ MORE