A federal judge in Green Bay ruled
Friday that Northeast Wisconsin Technical College violated the First
Amendment when officials ordered a student to stop handing out
Valentine's Day cards containing messages from the Bible,
including "Jesus Loves You!" and "God is Love!"
Polly
Olsen, 29, a Green Bay woman studying to become a paralegal, filed a
lawsuit against the college a little more than a year ago and came to
the attention of President Donald Trump, who invited her to the White
House in March.
On Valentine's Day 2018, Olsen was
handing out cards with Bible messages to students and staff when a
campus official told her she was violating school policy and took her to
the security office. Olsen has said the cards were a family tradition
started by her late mother.
"There can be no doubt
that in handing out her homemade valentines to her fellow students,
friends and staff at NWTC, Olsen was engaged in a constitutionally
protected form of expression," U.S. District Court Chief Judge William
C. Griesbach wrote in his decision.
What if she had been handing out messages from the Qur'an?
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