Arizona’s Peoria Unified School District faces possible legal action over two Christian school board members quoting Bible verses at public meetings.
“It would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6,” Rebecca Hill said during a May board meeting, according to news outlet KJZZ.
The state’s most prominent teacher’s union and a secular education organization have accused Ms. Hill and fellow board member Heather Rooks of imposing their religious beliefs during board meetings by quoting scripture.
On May 25, an attorney representing the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to district school-board president David Sandoval requesting the school district take “appropriate action” to stop Hill and Rooks from using their government positions to “promote their religious beliefs.”…