Artist Sues City Over Removal Of Paintings

On Tuesday, attorneys for the Alliance Defense fund filed suit on behalf of Sharon Marolf, an artist, claiming that the Culture & Recreational director of the city of Delta, Colorado violated Marolf's constitutional rights when she removed two of Marolf's paintings from a Delta Fine Arts Association display at the city's Bill Heddles Recreation Center. The paintings were removed when the city received a complaint that the paintings included quotations from the Bible. One was a painting of the artist's granddaughter accompanied by a quote from Psalms. The other displays passages that refer to circles and squares. The suit alleges violations of the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and of the Colorado Constitution's free speech protections. (Full text of complaint.)