Hanging pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. alongside Jesus in the hallway of a public school doesn't make the display any more constitutional, a judge said.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Gibson rejected a settlement Monday in a lawsuit filed by a student who objected to the large framed picture of Christ that has hung inside Bloomingdale High School since the 1960s.The lawsuit was filed 13 months ago by Eric Pensinger, then a senior at the school. In February, Gibson ordered the picture removed but allowed it to remain, covered with a cloth, while the school district appealed.
Gibson refused Monday to amend his earlier ruling.