Mississippi
A Hancock County School District (Miss.) resident reported that Hancock Middle School allowed religious messages to be posted on classroom doors. Multiple doors featured displays reading “The Lord bless you and keep you. Numbers 6:24,” signed with a heart from Refuge Church, referring to Refuge Baptist Church.
“Courts have continually held that public school districts may not display religious messages or iconography in public schools,” FFRF Staff Attorney Sammi Lawrence wrote in August 2022.
After following up in 2024, the district’s new superintendent, Rhett Ladner, reported back to FFRF. “I was not the superintendent when the event occurred, but it has been handled,” he wrote.
