Third-Grader's Parents Challenge On-Campus Religious-Ed Program

July 8, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The First Amendment Center

Wire Service: AP

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=23139

A Fort Wayne third-grader’s parents have sued the school district, claiming she was sent to a religious instruction program on school grounds without their permission.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which filed the lawsuit for the parents this week in federal court in Fort Wayne, is asking a judge to declare the program unconstitutional and ban it from operating on school property. It also asks the judge to prevent the school from sending the girl to the religious program without her parent’s explicit consent.