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Article: ACLJ Gets Oregon School District to Change Policy That Discriminated against Student Bible Club.
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- July 9, 2004
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The American Center for Law and Justice, which specializes in constitutional law, today announced that a school district in Oregon that was sued for a discriminatory policy targeting student Bible clubs has changed its policy - ensuring that student religious clubs will now receive the same treatment afforded to other student groups.
"We are pleased that the school district has taken corrective action to comply with the law," said Stuart J. Roth, Senior Counsel of the ACLJ, which filed suit against the school district. "We challenged a policy that was not only unfair but unconstitutional as well. The law is very clear: if a school district ...