A teenager who fought back after her public school wouldn’t allow her to place a Bible verse on her paid parking space has won her battle.
“Sabrina Steffans will proceed with her original design that was previously rejected by the school because of its religious references,” First Liberty Institute, a religious liberty law firm, said in a statement.
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Days after being threatened with litigation, the Grand Island Central School District near Buffalo, New York, decided to reverse course and allow the incoming high school senior to choose a religious design for her space, as the “school’s tradition allows seniors, for a fee, to ‘express themselves’ by decorating their parking space.’”
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Steffans told CBN News this week that the potential legal showdown kicked off after two of her drawings of what the space would look like were rejected before a third was eventually allowed.
“I put in three drawings that I did, and the first drawing was a drawing of this mountain called Salvation Mountain,” Steffans said. “And when I handed it in, they said … completely no to it because it had crosses, a Bible verse, and just a lot of religion that they said that wasn’t allowed.”
She continued, ”They finally agreed to … the last one, which had no Bible verses, no crosses, or anything.”
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The incoming high school senior said she wasn’t surprised by the first denial, as she runs the school’s Bible club and purports to have experienced times when the school turned down ads from her club.
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