Clymer To End Baccalaureate, Prayers At Graduation After Complaint
The Clymer Central School District will no longer host a baccalaureate service ahead of graduation in addition to removing prayer from the opening and closing of commencement.
The decades-long tradition will end following a notice from the Freedom From Religion Foundation asking the school district to end what it viewed as “unconstitutional practices.”
The religious organization said it received a complaint from a “concerned Clymer resident” that such programs could cross constitutional boundaries separating church and state because the events were held in the school with members of district staff. The complaint stems from the 2018 senior class activities associated with graduation.
FFRF asked the district to cease the practice of implementing religious prayers at commencement citing the court case Lee. v. Weisman that dealt with such issues.
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