This image comes from the Fox news site where a story was reported concerning a Tomah, Wisconsin, High School student who has filed a law suit after receiving a “0″ on an art project that included a depiction of a cross and a bible verse reference.
We hear so much today about tolerance,” said David Cortman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal advocacy group representing the student. “But where is the tolerance for religious beliefs? The whole purpose of art is to reflect your own personal experience. To tell a student his religious beliefs can legally be censored sends the wrong message.”
The student, who had been asked by his art teacher Julie Millin, to remove the cross and bible verse from his landscape because other students were talking about it, refused. She gave him a zero. When shown the policy that that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork, he tore it up in front of the class and received two detentions.
Seemingly inconsistent with the policy are the notable other religious symbols on campus including a six armed Hindu deity, and a Buddha.
Drawings of Medusa, the Grim Reaper with a scythe and a being with a horned head and protruding tongue hang in the art room and demonic masks are displayed in the metals room, the lawsuit alleges.
