Colorado school accused of preventing student from decorating personal parking space with Bible verse
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A high school senior alleged this week that her Colorado Springs high school violated the First Amendment by barring her from decorating a personalized parking space with Christian messages.
On behalf of senior Sophia Shumaker, the legal group First Liberty Institute filed a complaint with Rampart High School and Academy School District 20, accusing the school of viewpoint discrimination for denying her request to include a reference to Scripture on her parking space.
“Academy School District 20 created a public forum, whether designated or limited, when it opened its parking lots as a space where seniors may engage in private speech during their senior year,” the complaint stated. “What students paint on their parking spaces in the district is, therefore, protected by the Free Speech Clause and Rampart High School may not restrict Ms. Shumaker’s speech based on its religious viewpoint.”
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A Colorado Springs high school senior filed a legal complaint against her school for allegedly not letting her decorate her personalized school parking space with Christian references. (Mario Tama/Getty)
As the complaint noted, Rampart High School allows seniors to decorate their own personalized parking spaces for the year. However, it places certain restrictions on what can be included in the designs.
Quoting the policy, the letter stated, “The guidelines prohibit messages that the district deems, ‘offensive, negative, rude, gang-related, political, religious, or trademarked images.’ The school’s guidelines also state that if a student’s first design is ‘deemed unacceptable’ by the school, the student only has ‘one chance to change [the] design or forfeit [her] spot.’”
The letter claimed that in August, Shumaker “requested to paint her space with a shepherd on a hill, a staf
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