Wiccans File Lawsuit Against New Mexico City Over Ten Commandments Display

Followers of Wicca are suing a New Mexico city for having a Ten Commandments display on their government property.

A court recently heard the suit of Jane Felix and B.N. Coone against the city of Bloomfield in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.

Felix and Coone are being represented by the state chapter of the ACLU, and call the display a “violation of civil rights.”

“The placement of the city’s Ten Commandments monument by defendants amounts to their endorsement of a particular religion in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” reads the suit in part.

“Because the Ten Commandments monument is displayed at such a prominent location, Plaintiffs are brought into direct and unwelcome personal contact with it or plaintiffs must alter their behavior to avoid contact with the monument.”

Ryan Lane, city attorney for Bloomfield, told The Christian Post about the background of the Ten Commandments display. TRUNews