Christian words struck from Columbine memorial

DENVER, Colo. — The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled June 27 that Columbine school officials had the right to bar Christian messages from tiles on a campus memorial to those killed in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

The parents of Daniel Rohrbough and Kelly Fleming, two students who were killed during the shooting rampage offered religious messages in memory of their children. But the appeals court said, “We believe that the district’s restriction on religious symbols was reasonably related to its legitimate goal of preventing disruptive religious debate on the  school’s walls.”