CULLMAN, Alabama - A Wisconsin non-profit group has threatened a lawsuit against Cullman County Schools for planning a prayer caravan next month.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation published on its website today that it is "working to derail a 'prayer caravan' that is scheduled for Aug. 10 that flouts church-state separation."

According to the foundation, school district leaders and members will travel to each campus to say a 10-15 minute prayer. The foundation described that as an "inappropriate event" and "will alienate non-religious members of the Cullman County Schools community and inject religion into what should be a secular public school system."

Last year, the school system held its second-annual prayer caravan, according to The Cullman Times.

Cullman County Schools Superintendent Billy Coleman told WAFF Channel 48 there are no plans to cancel the prayer caravan. A page on the Cullman County Schools website announcing the Aug. 10 prayer caravan appears to have been taken down.

A page on the Cullman County Schools website announcing the Aug. 10 prayer caravan appears to have been taken down.

According to the announcement on the foundation website, "The school system's official "prayer caravan" event description on its website ended with, "It will be a time to lift our schools up to God and ask His blessings for the upcoming school year."

The foundation said it sent a letter of complaint to Cullman County Schools Superintendent Billy Coleman on July 22, saying the event should be canceled. Hours after the letter was emailed, all references to the prayer caravan was removed from the system website and Facebook page, the foundation said.

The foundation also called on Cullman County Schools to end its "unconstitutional practice" of reciting the Lord's Prayer each morning.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened a lawsuit against the city of Huntsville last year because of its tradition of opening city council meetings with prayer. Less than a month later, the city council adopted a policy of inviting both Christian and non-Christian religious leaders to deliver the invocation.



Click here to read the full statement from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.