NH School Engages in Religious Discrimination and Censorship

A school district in Hudson, New Hampshire is under the threat of a federal lawsuit for refusing to allow the distribution of a church's Vacation Bible School flyer to one of the schools in the district.

According to a report in OneNewsNow [1], church member Patricia Regan is taking action against the district, considering that she has been aware that the school has always allowed organizations in the community to distribute literature to promote events to the school's students. But, now they are refusing to allow her church's event information to be distributed to these children, as well.

For anyone who thinks sensibly, this sounds like a pretty fair protest to raise over the issue:

Joshua Bolinger, litigation counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund [2], is representing Regan. "Ms. Regan submitted... the Vacation Bible School flyers, in accordance with the school's literature distribution policy," he argues. "And the district superintendent rejected those flyers the following day because of their religious content and viewpoint."

According to the attorney, the school district's response is clearly unconstitutional. "Schools really cannot ban the distribution of a Christian group's literature just because it's religious," he adds. "But, unfortunately, that's what we have here."

Bolinger says that while the school district refused to allow the Vacation Bible School flyers, they did allow the distribution of printed flyers for a wide variety of other community groups.

This whole separation of church and state argument seems to get more absurdly applied year after year after year. I wonder just how many more years the argument is going to be raised that our nation actually should implement the practice that our state should totally separate itself from the practice of allowing church/religion altogether, after all we are supposed to have a separation of church and state! It really is getting that ridiculous.

The article closes with this:

Despite the fact that content and viewpoint discrimination against religious speech is clearly forbidden by both the U.S. Constitution and numerous federal court decisions, says Bolinger, government entities continue to illegally treat Christians and their speech less favorably than non-Christian speakers and their messages.

Gee... I wonder where the American Civil Liberties Union is when America needs them?!?!