{"id":127651,"date":"2016-10-04T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=127651"},"modified":"2016-10-04T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:57:52","slug":"nebraska-high-school-refuses-allow-student-led-pro-life-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nebraska-high-school-refuses-allow-student-led-pro-life-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska high school refuses to allow student-led pro-life club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gretna High School administration and its lawyers have received a demand letter from the Thomas More Society. The letter<\/a> charges the Omaha, Nebraska, area school with unconstitutional discrimination of students, after junior Bridget Christensen was denied her right to form a school-sponsored Students for Life club, Dragons for Life. Christensen was thwarted in her attempt to start the student-led pro-life club by school administrators who told her the club was too \u201creligious\u201d and also \u201ccontroversial,\u201d both of which are illegal reasons to deny the group.<\/p>\n

Christensen explained, \u201cInstead of dedicating my time to educating my peers about abortion and creating a strong Students for Life group at my high school that could be resource for those students facing unplanned pregnancies, I\u2019ve been forced to argue against my own school administrators and fight for my First Amendment rights,\u201d said Christensen, a junior at Gretna High School. \u201cMy school administration has been treating me and my friends who want to the start the Students for Life club like second-class citizens by not allowing us to be a school-sponsored club, even though they allow many other clubs that may be considered controversial. This double standard is discrimination and it\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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