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The Alliance Defending Freedom is fighting for a third-grade girl’s right to wear a “Jesus Loves Me” mask to her public school in Mississippi.
Lydia Booth was told to remove her mask by her Simpson Elementary School principal back in October. Lydia’s mom, Jennifer Booth, said she was initially told the mask violated school policy because it had words on it. But when she pointed out that a policy of “no words on masks” didn’t actually exist, the Simpson County School District superintendent retorted by telling the Booths that the policy bans masks with political, religious or inappropriate symbols.
That decision prompted the involvement of ADF, which has filed a federal lawsuit against the school district.
ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer told the Todd Starnes Radio Show on Thursday that the school district engaged in “viewpoint discrimination,” especially given that other students have been permitted to wear “Black Lives Matter” masks.
“We were forced to file a lawsuit in order to just allow this third-grader to just express this positive message to the students around her that Jesus loves me,” Langhofer said.
The school also changed its policy after the fact, justifying its decision and refusing to accommodate Lydia, Langhofer said.
“Apparently, they believe religious messages in class or in schools are inappropriate, but they allowed other masks with all kinds of other messages on it,” Langhofer told Starnes. “If you allow others to express messages on their masks, you have to allow people to express religious messages.”
Simpson Central School can be reached at 601-847-2630.
I hate leftists.
Double standard is the new standard.
I promise you a that a 3rd grade Muslim kid could walk around with a short Islamic prayer mask on.
welcomed and applauded under the guise of ‘diVerSitY EquiTy aNd iNcLusiOn’ I guarantee it.
You allow one you have to allow the other so its none or all or get sued and lose
Good deal. All is being revealed. This is why the cringe Left will lose. People fight to preserve freedoms and choices. (I’d be concerned if it was the 1930’s, but word gets around faster than back then to reverse trends and courses.)
Welcome back to Obama’s America.
Indeed. Obama started the whole race war. Hope his bitter fat wife is happy now in the USA.
Yep Barack Hussein and his “wife” Michael fanned the flames of racial division after the Michael Brown charade. We’re all still suffering from his most lasting impression.
Education in this country sucks. Just look at the rankings by country. And most teachers are leftists. They destroy everything they touch.
Liberalism is a disease. We can only hope it eats itself from the inside.
Before this incident if a student wore a mask which read “Allah loves me” or “Buddha loves me” what are the odds the same principal asks for it to be removed?
So, it’s ok to wear a Marxist, extortionist, Satan mask but not a Jesus mask. Um, ok. Well, you can thank Obama for starting all of this hateful rhetoric. Obama hated the police, White people and Christians. That’s probably the reason Biden was his VP. They’re both racists.
You are spot on. Obama reign began America’s downturn.
100%.
You Christians need to settle down and stop promoting white nationalism
John, how is a Jesus Loves Me mask promoting White nationalism? Can you give me an answer outside of the tired untrue narrative of White privilege? Just curious.
So believing in a middle eastern man as the savior of mankind and is the King of kings is white nationalism?
You Marxists need to settle down and stop promoting mental illness and insane statements like everything is based off skin suits.
Doesn’t matter whether it is a Christian issue or not. The point is what the school is doing is clearly illegal. Jesus is pretty much non-partisan. BLM is not. Time will show, in fact, BLM is a criminal organization – just wait and read the fine print because MSM won’t cover it.
🤦♂️ Mississippi? I’d expect this in NY or CA, but really?
I am thoroughly disappointed in Mississippi on this one, but they did let the leftists Kiffen, Sanders, and Leach start running their football teams… so….
It’s awesome that they sued and won. There is nothing wrong with that message. Jesus loves me too. 🙂