The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging Hudsonville, Mich., to remove from its website a reference to city officials striving āto serve God.ā
The foundation sent a letter to Mayor Don VanDoeselaar, asking the city to remove the reference to God from its mission statement.
The foundationās co-president, Annie Laurie Gaylor, said the group sent the letter after it received a complaint from a Hudsonville resident.
She wrote VanDoeselaar that it āis not the business of a city in our secular republic to āstrive to serve God.āā
āA city should have no religious beliefs,ā Gaylor said in the letter.
(RNS)
Update: After consulting an attorney, the mayor of Hudsonville recently announced that the phrase āto serve Godā will not be removed from its mission statement.