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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jan 10, 2019, 08:01 AM Jan 2019

Complaint about Camden County Courthouse images raises questions over constitutional rights [View all]

Although it may not be the answer the foundation was hoping for but after seeking legal counsel, at least for now, county officials don’t intend to budge on their decision to leave the images in the courthouse.

Camden County is responding to a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation which alleges two different images displayed in the courthouse are a violation of the First Amendment and need to be removed.

Although it may not be the answer the foundation was hoping for but after seeking legal counsel, at least for now, county officials don’t intend to budge on their decision to leave the images in the courthouse.

One of the images in question hangs in the Camden County Clerk’s office with a flag in the background and a verse that says, “Greater love hath no one than this, that one would lay their life down for another.”

Read more: https://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20190102/complaint-about-camden-county-courthouse-images-raises-questions-over-constitutional-rights

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