Another public school is attacking Christian students and their basic rights. Sabrina Steffens just wanted to paint a Bible verse on her parking spot at Grand Island High School in New York. The school shut her down fast.
This brave high school senior paid her fifty dollars like every other student. She followed all the rules and submitted her design with Christian messages and Bible verses. But the liberal school administrators said no because it was too religious for their taste.
The school’s own guidelines only ban offensive language and gang symbols. Nothing in their rules says students cannot express their faith. Yet they rejected Sabrina’s first two designs simply because they mentioned God and included crosses.
School officials told this Christian student she could not reference the Bible or even mention God’s name. They said her parking spot would be considered government speech if it had religious content. This is complete nonsense and shows how anti-Christian our schools have become.
Sabrina runs the Bible club at her school and has faced this discrimination before. She says it took months to get her club started because administrators kept blocking her at every turn. They even rejected her club’s posters when they had Bible verses on them.
Now First Liberty Institute is fighting back for this student. They sent the school district a legal demand letter explaining that Sabrina’s First Amendment rights are being violated. The lawyers are giving the school a chance to do the right thing before they file a federal lawsuit.
The school district received the letter and immediately paused their deadline for all parking spot designs. They know they are in big trouble and are scrambling to figure out how to defend their obvious religious discrimination. Superintendent Brian Graham is reviewing the situation with his lawyers.
This case shows exactly what is wrong with our public schools today. They bend over backward to accommodate every liberal cause but attack Christian students who simply want to express their faith. Sabrina deserves to win this fight and send a message that religious freedom still matters in America.
