School district faces law suit from yet another group

On May 4, the Liberty Counsel, an organization dedicated to "restoring the culture by advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life and the family," filed in federal district court a comprehensive lawsuit against the Santa Rosa County School District and its Superintendent, Timothy S. Wyrosdick, for "their persistent and widespread violations of First Amendment rights," according to a press release.

On the same Pensacola federal courthouse building's front steps where just months ago Frank Lay and Robert Freeman and their supporters celebrated a victory when Judge Case Rodgers found the pair "not guilty" of violating a school-district-designed consent decree in response to an American Civil Liberties Union suit brought against the school district in a First Amendment/school prayer issue, the Liberty Counsel held a symbolic announcement and rally to proclaim publicly that the law suit had been officially filed.

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