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Atheists muscle in on ‘Jesus Lunch’ at public park

April 21, 2016

By Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner

MIDDLETON, Wisc. (Christian Examiner) – Protestors descended on a student- and parent-led lunchtime Bible discussion in a public park next to a Wisconsin high school Tuesday in an effort to stop the assembly.

For the first time since the event adjacent to Middleton High School began in Fireman’s Park in 2014, the “Jesus Lunch” was met with calls for “separation of church and state” and shouts of protest about white Christians being divisive at the school.

Those students who protested, the Wisconsin State Journal claimed, were supported by the atheist Freedom from Religion Foundaiton (though the paper referred to FFRF as “secular”).

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