California school district backpedals after 'Piss Christ' image riles students, parents

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A high school in Goleta, California, backed off including the controversial 'Immersion (Piss Christ)' in its curriculum after receiving a letter from the Thomas More Society.

Brett Farley, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, weighs in on approval of faith-based charter school.has discontinued using an infamous image of a crucifix submerged in urine as part of its curriculum following backlash from parents and threats of lawsuits.

Attorneys with the nonprofit Thomas More Society fired off a letter to the SBUSD on May 9 claiming the school had created an illegal hostile environment for Christian students by using the image and demanded it be removed from the Dos Pueblos High School curriculum. "The school’s deliberate use of a despicable image in a course required for an International Baccalaureate Diploma shows extremely poor judgment," Thomas More Society special counsel Paul Jonna said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.

Thomas More Society special counsel Jeffrey Trissell told Fox News Digital in a statement that"repeated requests for clarification finally resulted in a concession that the offending photograph would no longer be used in theAn attorney for SBUSD confirmed to attorneys with the Thomas More Society that"Piss Christ" will be permanently removed from the curriculum of Dos Pueblos High School, shown above.

 

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