ABP's Bob Allen updates the story in which Fort Oglethorpe, GA cheerleaders were barred from carrying signs with religious messages on a high school football field during games. The citizen, Donna Jackson, who initially called in concerns to the principal over the signs wasn't trying to complain, as it turns out. She was merely worried the school officials wouldn't be able to get away with it, after she actually took the time to learn a thing or two about the separation of church and state in schools.
She said she took a class last summer at Liberty University, where she is studying toward a doctorate in education, on school law, and it prompted her concern that the cheerleader signs be done in a way to avoid a federal lawsuit.
"I never used the word 'complain,' 'complaint,' 'grievance' or any other word similar in meaning," Jackson explained. "I expressed concern that teachers could be subject to lawsuits or losing their jobs. My concern was a direct result of the class I took this summer" at the conservative Baptist school.
