Religious Discrimination in Schools

“When two students sought to hang up flyers detailing information on Bible clubs, church activities, and after-school religious activities at their Charlottesville, VA., school., they were told they could not do so. The father of the students, twins Gabriel and Joshua Rakoski, contacted the Liberty Counsel after school officials said the district’s literature policy prohibits ‘distribution of literature that is for partisan, sectarian, religious, or political purposes.’ Liberty Counsel then sent a demand letter informing the Albemarle Country Public Schools that its literature distribution policy was unconstitutional… The district quickly reversed its religious literature ban… The district violated well-established constitutional principles by prohibiting the Rakoski twins from distributing fliers about their church-sponsored event.”

Incredibly, many times something like the occurrence described above happens – but people don’t always have such a good ending.

A lot of times, parents end up pulling their children out of the school in particular and enrolling them elsewhere. Sometimes, despite their rights clearly stated in the constitution, kids end up with the short end of the stick. For instance, in a recent holiday celebrating homosexuality, children at a public school were allowed to wear shirts promoting the event. However, when other kids decided to choose their own day to wear shirts stating their own beliefs about homosexuality and abortion, they got suspended until they got rid of the shirts.

Make sure you let everyone know that their rights are protected – and not just to say things that are politically correct.

DDL is a staff writer for Pushing Back the Frontiers of Ignorance.

Article source: National Liberty Journal