“With God all things are possible.” That Bible quote (Matthew 19:26, New King James Version) hung two days ago on the door to the Recorder’s office in the Lake County (Indiana) Government Center. It’s visible to everyone entering or leaving the building through the main entrance.

Recorder Gina Pimentel, re-elected in 2024 for a second four-year term, has posted campaign photos on Facebook that show her family posing in front of a church, or in front of a giant wooden cross (from which I cropped her three young children) and a post celebrating the National Day of Prayer. This is not a problem.

Making a display of religious belief in a high-traffic area of a government office building is a problem.

It crosses a well-established legal line of long standing between religion and government. I hope she decides to tuck it into a private area of her work space in the office, where it can’t be taken as an attempt to proselytize a religious belief in a place of secular activities that should be welcoming to people without a reference to any faith.