A couple more cases where the ADF is almost certainly in the right, reported by Agape Press. One school in Kansas and one in Texas where school officials are not treating Fellowship of Christian Athletes clubs the same as other student clubs, denying them mention in school yearbooks or access to announcement mechanisms that other clubs have. I don't know why so many schools have difficulty with this issue, on either side. It's really pretty simple: you have to treat religious and non-religious student clubs the same, always. If one has access to hand out flyers or use school vehicles or make announcements over the PA, then they all must have it. If you charge one club a fee for using school facilities, you have to charge all clubs the same amount for the same thing. For crying out loud, the Federal law is actually called the Equal Access Act; the title alone should tell them what they have to do.
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If I was paranoid, I would think that these districts - especially in Texas and Kansas - are doing this on purpose. If they get the public riled up about this "assault on Christianity", then they can try to legislate special protected access for Christian groups and possibly limit non-Christian groups they don't like.
Kind of off-topic, but I remember seeing posters when I was in college inviting students to join the FCA that stated that you didn't have to be an athlete to join. My guess is that you still had to be a Christian.
In an unrelated development: Teachers win suit over forced anthem singing
dhodge--I was a member of FCA in high school, although I didn't become a Christian for a long time after. As proselytizing is a major reason such groups exist, yes, they allow anyone to join. My group didn't have any club officers; if they had, those might have been reserved for Xtians.
Keithb,
Totally agree with you. Who...Who I say do you think stole that portrait of Jesus from that school in Harrison County, WV earlier this summer? Was it the godless, hippie, liberals who filed the lawsuit do you think? Or was it someone trying to rile the troops?
It is actually idiot administrators like this that get the righties all lathered up for a fight all the time. The "persecuted" Christians jump up and down claiming that this is just another example of the atheist liberal ACLU trying to wipe religion off the face of the earth; And they'll not believe a word of it if a reasonable and objective person tries to point out that when Christians are unfairly censored in public places the ACLU actually has to come out and straighten out the mess caused by panicky and diminished school administrators.