Constitutional Law
Jul. 3, 2001
Opening Schools to the Good News
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School. Widely hailed by religious groups and lambasted by strict separationists, the Supreme Court held that the exclusion of religious groups from the limited, after-hours public forum that had been established by the school district to facilitate student clubs was an unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination against religious views in violation of the Free Speech and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School. Widely hailed by religious groups and lambasted by strict separationists, the Supreme Court held that the exclusion of religious groups from the limited, after-hours public forum that ha...
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