Thu Sep 28, 2023 – 2:37 pm EDTThu Sep 28, 2023 – 3:56 pm EDT
PEORIA, Arizona (LifeSiteNews) — A Christian school board member in Arizona is suing her district for alleged violation of her First Amendment rights after she was barred from quoting the Bible during board meetings.
On Tuesday, conservative legal group First Liberty Institute and law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Heather Rooks, who was elected to the Peoria Unified School District’s Governing Board last year and began her term in January 2023.
A Peoria resident and a mother of four, Rooks has consistently begun her public comments during board meetings “by quoting a short scripture from the Bible,” the filing states, something that has “made her the target of outside activist groups, who barraged her with complaints, grievances, and threats of legal action.”
The board itself also “warned Rooks that, in the Board’s view, quoting scripture during a public meeting is unlawful.”
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In a statement published by First Liberty, Rooks said she is “grateful to be a part of the Peoria Unified School
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