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Group fights shoe giveaway: Barry Lynn plays the Grinch
By admin | December 14, 2007
Group fights shoe giveaway: Barry Lynn plays the Grinch
NORTH AUGUSTA — A national organization is protesting a church-sponsored shoe giveaway program in some schools in Aiken and Edgefield counties, saying it violates the legal separation of church and state.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State sent letters Tuesday urging the school systems in Edgefield and Aiken counties to end their involvement with Laces 4 Love, a First Baptist Church of North Augusta ministry that provides about 12,000 pairs of shoes to disadvantaged pupils.
“You just can’t allow a religious group to carry on what it sees as a ministry of its church inside of a public school,†said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, the executive director of Americans United.
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