While the other secular clubs are allowed to announce their meetings over the intercom, FCA is not. The other clubs can make t-shirts with their club name, but FCA cannot. The other clubs can hang posters on a bulletin board, but FCA is denied the same right. The other clubs can have bank accounts and a student sponsor and can also set up a booth at the annual club fair for eighth grade orientation. FCA has been denied all these rights and privileges.
Equal access means equal treatment.
Liberty Counsel filed suit against the school board and is beginning a national campaign to enforce the Equal Access Act. Equal access is simple. Schools must treat the religious clubs equal to how they treat the secular clubs. It is time that the educators became educated and stop discriminating against these Christian Bible clubs. Despite a lawsuit from a group which calls themselves the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a statue of Jesus will remain standing in a public park in Marshfield, Wisconsin.