ICC Note: In a small victory for religious liberty in the US, a Kansas middle school has ended its ban against religious materials that blocked students from passing out flyers advertising a “See You at the Pole” prayer event. Religious students and parents are increasingly facing an uphill battle over the freedom to express and hold events related to their faith inside the public school system. Often, the discriminatory regulations by school’s or entire school districts are designed to prevent Christian materials or advertisements of Christian events from being distributed on school grounds, though this is in most cases a clear violation of the U.S Constitutions guarantee of religious freedom. 

5/05/2014 United States (ONN) – A public school district in Kansas has ended a policy that discriminated against Christian students. But it came too late to promote last year’s annual “See You at the Pole” student-led prayer event.

A school official at Robert E. Clark Middle School told a student last September that she could not post fliers or hand out flyers to promote “See You at the Pole.”

Tedesco, Jeremy (ADF)Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on behalf of the student, a seventh-grader, and the school has since changed its discriminatory policy.

“The policy itself was clearly unconstitutional,” says ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco.

The district-wide policy banned religious materials from being distributed, even by students, and was a “clear cut” violation of students’ First Amendment rights, he says.

ADF announced the lawsuit last December, alleging that a school counselor told the student the flyers were illegal because they contained Bible verses.

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