Santa Ana School Trustee Ceci Iglesias Comes Under Fire for Prayer Campaign

Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) board member Cecilia "Ceci" Iglesias finds herself mired in controversy yet again. This time around, the Republican salvadoreña isn't championing charter schools, calling gender-neutral bathrooms "creepy" in political attack videos, defending mariachi-loving Trump fans, or avoiding censure at last night's board meeting. She's in hot water for leading a SanTana school prayers campaign in the name of the good Lord above. "If we can't have prayers in our Schools," Iglesias wrote last month in a Pray for Santa Ana Schools Facebook group she belongs to, "Then we Will have Schools in our prayers."

But did she blur the line between church and state by starting a prayer campaign at school sites?

Read more on my latest OC Weekly Navel Gazing Blog post:

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