Copyright 2001 Associated Press. All rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistribution. The Carroll County commissioners have become the first Maryland locality to adopt a program that promotes traits in county workers it deems critical to good citizenship. Each month, county government employees will be asked to extol a specific character trait.
Examples are kindness, loyalty, obedience, self-confidence, responsibility and gratefulness.
A fundamentalist Judeo-Christian group has applauded the program. But critics say they are concerned the program promotes religious values and might violate First Amendment guarantee of church-state separation. Copyright 2001 Associated Press. All rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistribution.