School board fights to keep Jesus portrait

[Judi Lynn]

School board fights to keep Jesus portrait
Lawsuit targets painting that has hung at W.Va. high school for 37 years
Updated: 11 minutes ago

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. - The Harrison County Board of Education said Tuesday it will fight civil liberties groups' efforts to remove a painting of Jesus Christ at Bridgeport High School.

The board vowed earlier not to spend public money defending itself but had given outside interests a Tuesday deadline to raise at least $150,000 for a defense fund.
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"This board is moving forward," Queen told a cheering audience of about 50 people, many of whom wore white T-shirts that read, "You can't take our Jesus down."

"I feel proud to be a West Virginian and an American today because of what these people did here," said actor Mayf Nutter, who helped with the fund-raising. "They said they would not be pushed off their own porch."
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