Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 14, 2007
Bible Club Decision Confuses Discrimination with Adherence to Principles
Forum Column - By Robert H. Tyler - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decison upholding a public school's right to bar a Christian student organization penalizes ideology, not discrimination.
By Robert H. Tyler
The latest attack on our nation's Christian heritage comes from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case pardoxically rationalized as preventing religious discrimination. Veiled in legal arguments that a school district's nondiscrimination policy trumps a high school Bible club's membership requirement, the court's decision is nothing more than latent favoritism toward a secular ideology.
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