It's only a short paragraph, two books into the bible, but Exodus chapter 20:2-17 is causing yet another stir in the New River Valley.
This time, members of Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Floyd County High School say administrators tore down taped copies of the Ten Commandments from more than 50 lockers on Wednesday.
"We really wanted to set it up as an example," said FCA member Andrew Harris.
Harris plays golf for Floyd County High School and is one of the students who posted the Commandments to his locker.
"Birthday wishes, things like that seem to go up without an approval stamp," said Harris.
School officials would not confirm to WSLS what happened, but did reveal their policy on posting to lockers. Principal Barry Hollandsworth said while approval is needed for flyers and announcements, he said notes such as happy birthday and well wishes for sports games do not need approval.
David Corry, the senior litigation counselor for the Liberty Counsel, thinks that if students can post things like birthday wishes and any other sort of well wishes, that all religious speech should be allowed.
"The U.S. Constitution doesn't put religious expression as a second class form of speech, it's not an orphan. It's just as protected as any other kind of student expression like save the whales or go team," said Corry.
"I just didn't understand really what was going on because everybody else can put things on their locker, we put one thing on our locker and it's getting torn down," said Harris.
WSLS obtained a letter Thursday afternoon sent by Liberty Counsel (click here to read it as a PDF file), on behalf of Jacob Agee, FCA Vice President, and his parents Ralph and Tambra, to Floyd County High School administrators, and the Floyd County School Board. In the letter, the Liberty Counsel asks that the commandments be allowed back up on lockers, in order to comply with the First Amendment.
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