Biblical Banners Stir Controversy for Georgia High School Football Team

by Jeff Fisher
Georgia High School Football Huddle

Aside from X's and O's, the Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe high school football team is now dealling with the First Amendment as it prepares for tomorrow night's road game against Ridgeland.

The Warriors are getting a lot of attention this week, but not for their 4-1 record on the field, but the and the signs the team runs through at the start of the game.

According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, school officials are no longer going to allow the team's cheerleaders to make banners that contain biblical verses, that have become tradition at the northwest Georgia high school since 2003. According to the report, one Fort Oglethorpe resident made a verbal complaint that the religious signs displayed by a public school violates a federal law.

For more, check-out a story on WDEF-TV.

In closing, I certainly don't want to insert myself into the middle of the controversy, but it seems to me that the person that complained about the sign should also be upset that the team's nickname is the Warriors. I guess the biblical sign complainer isn't offended by using a Native American as the team's mascot.