Christian students face 'increasing hostility'

A New York school district faces a federal lawsuit over banning a student-led Bible club.
Charlie Butts
OneNewsNow
2/13/2009

The Lindenhurst Union Free School District has barred the club and continues to do so in spite of legal information provided by Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel David Cortman.

"It gets more and more difficult to believe, but after over two decades of the law being settled, a school district has decided it will not allow a Bible club to meet because of -- yes, you guessed it -- the so-called separation of church and state," he explains. "What's even more surprising, of course, is that they allow all other clubs to meet, including a Gay-Straight Alliance, a Key Club, a chess club, and your normal clubs."

The school is not allowing the Bible club to use classrooms for meetings on the same basis as other clubs. Cortman tells OneNewsNow it is odd having to file suit to educate educators on the First Amendment when they should be teaching it. the rest