“In an effort to share positive and uplifting messages with their football players, middle school and high school cheerleaders in Kountze, Texas, made a team decision to paint Bible verses on run-through banners at games. Their inspirational signs were banned after the superintendent received a complaint letter from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).

Ashton Lawrence, a cheerleader from Kountze High School, shares why she and her friends decided to fight back, and how she was impacted by it.”