The Christian movie “Facing the Giants” won’t be shown to Medina Middle School’s seventh-graders in the future, FFRF has ensured.
A parent of a student at the Dyer, Tenn., school brought the issue to FFRF’s attention. The film follows a struggling high school football coach who inspires his team to believe in the God and to use faith to win football games.
Showing “Facing the Giants” in a public school “promotes Christianity over all other religions and nonreligion and violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment,” FFRF Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert informed the Gibson County Special School District.
Eddie Pruett, the district’s director of schools, replied that the teacher was reminded that multimedia must be approved by the principal, and was told that “Facing the Giants” was not an appropriate movie to show the class.
