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Court condones expression of faith.(Making A Difference)
In 2001, the dress code policy for employees of Kentucky's Logan County Public Library system read: "No clothing depicting religious, political, or potentially offensive decoration is permitted."
Kimberly Draper, a library employee, was accustomed to wearing a cross pendant on a necklace as an expression of her Christian faith. In early April 2001, a supervisor claimed that the necklace violated the dress code and ordered Draper to remove it. She refused. On April 16, 2001, after several additional warnings, she was fired.
The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law. filed suit on Draper's behalf in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green on February 1, 2002. On September 2 of this year, the court ruled, in a decision written by U.S District Judge Thomas B. Russell, that the library's policy unconstitutionally violates both the free speech and free exercise clauses of the ...
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