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Illinois school accused of unlawfully banning Christian Good News clubs: lawsuit

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An Illinois school district has been accused of mistreating Good News Club chapters by imposing stricter access restrictions than those for secular student clubs.

Moline-Coal Valley School District was accused of unlawfully banning the Christian student clubs in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Rock Island Division.

According to the complaint, the school district officials have engaged in “discriminatory policies” against Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) and its Good News Clubs.

Specifically, the suit alleges that the school district has required them to “pay discriminatory facility use fees, prevent them from distributing literature to students to take home to their parents, and bar them from Backpack Nights.”

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