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Connecticut district will stop holding graduation at church

ACLU had objected to practice
Feb. 9, 2010
News release: The Windsor (Ct.) School Board has voted to stop holding public high school graduation ceremonies at a Christian church in Bloomfield. With this decision, all five area school districts that had been holding graduations at the church have voted to halt the practice. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Connecticut and Americans United for Separation of Church and State had objected to the school districts' practice of holding graduations at The First Cathedral in Bloomfield.

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