Concerns surrounding the separation of church and state is the focus of a cease-and-desist letter written to Vail Unified School District after the school board unanimously approved building an LDS Seminary at Cienega High School. A church in Utah would donate the building and lease it for ten years, according to the contract.
A flood of concerns on social media started the conversation about these plans, which are set to be completed by January 2026. The contract with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was voted on at the most recent school board meeting.
“The school is not where religion is supposed to be taught,” said Dianne Post, the legal director for Secular AZ, a non-profit organization that works to protect the constitutional separation of church and state…