Seeing Jesus vs. Not Seeing Jesus
Jesus may be currently appearing on a burrito in Sacramento, but he won’t be making any more appearances at Bridgeport High School in West Virginia, thanks to a recently approved settlement in lawsuit involving the a portrait of Jesus that had long been displayed on the wall outside of the principal’s office.
For years, Harold Sklar had been telling the Harrison County school board that it had no defensible position for having a portrait of Jesus hanging in the halls of Bridgeport High School.
When Sklar, an attorney, filed a lawsuit in June to have it removed, school board attorney Richard Yurko told the board the same thing.
On Friday, the board finally showed it was listening.
That’s when Harrison County school board members voted 4-1 to approve a settlement that provides it will never hang or display any item with religious content in the school.
“It’s the right thing to do,” said Richard Katskee, the legal director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “It puts the focus back on the children and not on the religious divisions, and so the plaintiffs are very pleased.
Ed Brayton says a judge put the stamp of approval on the settlement. So the battle over seeing vs. not seeing Jesus on the high school wall is over. Right? Well, sorta. Maybe.
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