Tue Oct 11, 2022 – 8:03 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Students in Nevada are suing their high school for discriminatory behavior against their pro-life club, saying that the school “made no effort to disguise its antipathy toward (the group’s) pro-life message.”
The lawsuit on behalf of students at the East Career and Technical Academy High School in Las Vegas against the school and the district alleges discriminatory behavior against the pro-life club. The students said the school was purposefully suppressing and mitigating the club’s efforts to spread the pro-life message, thus violating their First Amendment rights.
“We witnessed a lot of animosity from the administrators who I would argue did not like the pro-life message, and so they tried to suppress it as much as possible,” said Felipe Avila, a recent high school graduate who founded the school’s pro-life club in 2019.
Avila said the pro-life club had experienced a lot of discrimination in regard to their material, whichi includes flyers that the school would often stop from being distributed.
“One of the biggest aspects that we’ve had to encounter was we’ve received a lot of flyer denials,” Avila said. “A lot of it sometimes came
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