By: Chris Donaldson | BizPac Review
A Colorado high school set off a free speech battle after it refused to allow a Christian senior to use religious imagery to decorate her personal parking spot in what she says is a violation of her First Amendment rights.
Sophia Shumaker was only looking to express her faith when she submitted her original design depicting a shepherd, a sheep, and a Bible verse to Rampart High School, only to have it denied because the school’s guidelines prohibit anything that is “offensive, negative, rude, gang-related, political, or religious.”
“The shepherd and the sheep, the 99 sheep basically represent the shepherd leaves the 99 sheep to go find the lost one,” she told Fox 21 News.
After her first sketch was rejected, Shumaker then submitted a second design, this one less overtly religious, that depicted a group of fish with one swimming in the opposite direction, which she said “quietly represents her faith,”according to KKTV. The alternate version featured the text “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud,” citing Corinthians 13:4-8.
But it was also rejected, setting off a legal battle after she got help from First Liberty Institute, which, according to the firm’s website, is “the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans.”
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