Bible citation costs couple jobs, home - Apartment managers evicted, fired for being ‘too religious’

For eight years Daniel and Sharon Dixon, apartment managers in Lake City, Fla., displayed in the apartment complex’s management office a stained glass depiction of flowers with the words “Consider the lilies … Matthew 6:28″ written in the lower left corner – an act for which they were suddenly fired from their management jobs and evicted from their apartment.

Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom that is representing the Dixons, told WND that neither before nor after the incident were the Dixons charged with any wrongdoing other than protesting the removal of the artwork and loss of their jobs.

“They were suddenly terminated as a result of the religious bigotry of one supervisor,” Staver said in a press release. “The Dixons lost their jobs and were booted out on the street, solely because artwork in their office made reference to the Bible.”…