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In First Amendment Clash, Christian Center Sues Georgia School District Alleging Retaliation

For more than a decade, Vidalia High School students in Georgia took courses at Sweet Onion Christian Learning Center as part of a partnership. Now the center and the Vidalia City School District are clashing in a federal First Amendment lawsuit.

The school district terminated the longstanding agreement with the Christian center after its founder, the Rev. Gady Youmans, criticized a proposed school board tax hike, and after the superintendent raised concerns about the center’s “particular interpretation” of the Bible, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on Friday.

The center and Youmans are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a national religious freedom legal group.

“Every American has the right to publicly criticize the government—that’s what makes the First Amendment guarantee of free speech so special and the envy of the world,” ADF legal counsel Mercer Martin said in a statement.

“Vidalia City Schools can’t punish Rev. Youmans—or his ministry providing high school students with........

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