FLORENCE, Colo. – A disgruntled former Florence High School teacher filed a federal lawsuit against the Fremont Re-2 School District yesterday over religious student activities he alleges are illegal.

Former Florence teacher Robert Basevitz filed a lawsuit in Denver Tuesday that alleges Florence High School officials conspire with The Cowboy Church at Crossroads to “promote the evangelical Christian ideals” of the church by allowing students to gather in prayer each morning, and hold a pizza and Bible study group during the lunch hour, the Denver Post reports.

Basevitz, who is Jewish, alleges he felt excluded and singled out by students at the high school because of his faith, and school leaders refused to do anything about it. The lawsuit also alleges Basevitz raised issues with religion-based announcements on the school’s intercom and Christian-based literature and Bibles given away to students.

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“This is not one or two isolated incidents. On a single day, there were no less than five school-sponsored religious events,” Basevitz’s attorney, Paul Maxon, told the Post. “That is a pervasive involvement with religion, which is illegal.”

The lawsuit alleges that when Basevitz filed a formal complaint over the religious activity, including gripes about religious prayer sessions that sometimes obstruct the school entrance, district officials sent him to teach at an elementary school.

“When he finally did make a formal complaint, he was immediately retaliated against by being forced out of the school and transferred to a different location,” Maxon told Colorado Public Radio.

“This is not somebody who purely on theoretical reasons is opposed to religious activities in a public school,” Maxon said. “He actually is part of a religious minority and actually was discriminated against when he tried to get the school to stop these illegal religious activities.”

The Cowboy Church at Crossroads pastor Randy Pfaff told the Post he doesn’t believe the church has done anything illegal in its work with students.

“I don’t believe the Constitution was meant to keep God out of the schools. That’s absolutely absurd,” he said. “This nation was founded on Christianity.”

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Basevitz’s lawsuit alleges that same mentality is shared by the district’s top administrator, superintendent Rhonda Vendetti, who has “publicly supported Pastor Pfaff and Principal (Brian) Schipper’s religious activates despite complaints about their illegality.”

Vendetti and Schipper, who are listed as defendants along with the school district, did not provide a comment on the lawsuit for the Post, but Schipper told 7News “religion’s not in our curriculum anywhere.”

Pfaff told the Post that school officials in February asked church leaders to stay out of Florence High School for now.

“It was just very sudden,” student Maria Ibarra, who now heads student prayers and other activities, told the Post. “A lot of Christians are losing their rights.”

The news of the lawsuit prompted a wide range of reaction on the Post’s Facebook page.

“Ridiculous,” wrote Christina Faith Hughes. “We had prayer around the flagpole at my school when I was in high school. It infringes on no one’s rights for me to practice my faith. It is an infringement on my rights for you to tell me I can’t just because you don’t.”

“I believe that our country would be a whole lot better off if we brought God back into the schools,” Marci Jacoby posted.

Brian Cooper believes the case rests on the specifics of how the religious activities at Florence were run.

“There is a fine line, if the organization isn’t a part of a student club run by individuals of the student body and is run by the religious leader then it should be scrutinized. However, individuals should be allowed to participate in whatever group activity they wish and U.S. citizens should be encouraged to exercise their right to gather, speak, and to exercise their rights to their own religion. Whatever that may be,” he wrote.

Mike Huneycutt wrote that he believes the Constitution is being contorted into an all-out ban on religion in public schools.

“No one seems to understand the principle reasoning for separation of church and state. It’s to keep government from infringing on faith. Not the other way around,” he wrote. “Crazy world today.”