Pastor-Turned-Atheist Forces Police Chaplains to Remove Crosses

Chaplains working in the city police department in Spokane, Wash., will have to remove all crosses from their badges to settle a lawsuit filed by a Christian pastor turned atheist.

Ray Ideus, a former Lutheran pastor of 30 years, claimed in his suit that the Christian-Latin cross included on the badges worn by chaplains in the Spokane Police Department is an “impermissible incorporation of a particular religious symbol in a government insignia.”

“It's very important that they'll have to take that cross off. It's not a Christian police department,” said Ideus, 75, according to the Associated Press.

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