Religious message taken off school sign in W.V. (September 8, 2020)

A religious message has been removed from a Wayne County Schools (W.Va.) sign.

A local resident reported that the electronic notice board outside of Buffalo Middle School had featured the message ā€œGod will carry usā€ for much of the summer.

This message was accompanied by several footprints on the digital notice board, presumably in reference to the popular Christian poem ā€œFootprints in the Sand.ā€

FFRF Legal Fellow Brendan Johnson wrote to Superintendent Todd Alexander, pointing out the constitutional impermissibility of projecting this overtly religious message on public school grounds.

Alexander assured FFRF in an email response that the message has been removed from the sign.

Freedom From Religion Foundation