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The rest of the article is great, but this part is instructional:

“First thing in the morning on January 11th, I called the principal, Evan Parrott, to express my concern with these shirts being given out in my child’s school. Mr. Parrott proceeded to tell me that the school was in no way endorsing anyone by giving out the shirts, and that in fact a note had gone home with each student, and that the 5th grade students were told that they didn’t have to take them, but could if they wanted. He also said that they were given the shirts by The Gazette and felt like they couldn’t turn down free t-shirts to give away.

My immediate response was to ask him if the school would give away shirts that had ‘Jesus Saves’ across the front, if they were free to the school. The question was obviously dodged and our conversation ended by him telling me that an e-mail would be sent out to parents explaining the situation. There was no acknowledgement of any wrongdoing, but rather an acknowledgement of miscommunication.”