GOLDEN, Colo. – A Colorado college is going out of its way to prevent a graduate from referencing God on a plaque in the school’s new athletic facility, earning itself a federal lawsuit.

The Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit against the Colorado School of Mines Thursday on behalf of former football player Michael Lucas, one of numerous donors to the school’s new athletic facility. Those donors were given a nameplate to write a three line personalized message for the new football locker room, and school officials made no restrictions on content, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty nonprofit.

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Lucas, a former nose tackle, donated $2,500 and requested “Colossians 3:23 and Micah 5:9” for his inscription, but CSM rejected the message “because one of the verses refers to ‘Lord’ even though the text of the verses would not appear on the nameplate itself,” ADF reports.

It wasn’t until Lucas submitted his request that officials claimed the message could not include “Lord,” “God,” or “Jesus” or reference any versus with those words. School officials allegedly told Lucas that including any reference to God is a violation of the First Amendment, according to the lawsuit.

Then they cited an anti-discrimination policy in an email to CBS Denver.

“The Colorado School of Mines seems to be more interested in silencing or censoring speech that they don’t agree with and specifically religious speech,” ADF attorney Natalie Decker told the news site. “It’s just a ridiculous position to take to assert that somehow a reference to a Bible verse is inappropriate just because someone might go and look up that particular verse and it contains the word Lord.”

ADF pointed out several of the other messages approved by CSM officials: “Give ‘Em Hell,” “OK Gentlemen, it’s time to gird your loins,” and “Take your whiskey clear.”

“The United States Constitution prohibits the government from treating religion with hostility or from excessively entangling the government with religion,” according to Lucas’ lawsuit. “The censorship of Mr. Lucas’s religious speech – while permitting similar, but nonreligious, private speech from other members of the public regarding the same and similar subject matters – also constitutes viewpoint discrimination, which is unconstitutional in any type of forum.”

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To temporarily resolve the dispute Lucas and school officials agreed to use the actual Micah 5:9 verse: “Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed.”

The lawsuit caught the attention of American Thinker’s Rick Moran, who seemed a bit agitated by CSM.

He wrote:

After you pick your jaw off the floor, consider this: About 90% of the country believes in God; And 71% of America calls itself Christian, making ‘Jesus’ an acceptable word to the overwhelming majority of the country. …

School administrators are obviously mentally ill. Perhaps not ‘strait jacket, bouncing off the walls of a mental institution’ mentally ill, but certainly requiring years of therapy. Only a diseased mind could come up with these strictures – or radically militant group of hysterical atheists. Needless to say, they should be sent back to grade school and instructed in the meaning of the First Amendment.

Are we reaching peak stupidity in speech codes on campus? It really doesn’t get much worse than this, although I wouldn’t be surprised if some other school tops this next week. What’s absolutely amazing to me is that most of the docile, sheep-like students and professors on campus are sitting on their hands while their rights are trampled on. 

 And the scary thing is that they may even agree with the stance taken by school administrators.