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The Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Award Act of 1976 changed the law. Before, when someone sued a school, they could only recover actual damages; but with this Act, they could now recover their attorney’s fees as well.

This meant that the ACLU could now *profit* from suing schools for “violating the establishment clause”. It quickly became a big money-maker for them, so they started filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat. Most were far too expensive to challenge, so were settled, with the ACLU making huge amounts of money.

The Republican House of Representatives tried to repeal this ridiculous act in 2006, with the “Public Expression of Religion Act”, but the US senate refused to even consider it.

But this is above and beyond my argument, and just shows why schools are terrified of harmless things like a teacher sharing a Bible with an interested student.

However, the ACLU would never dream of suing a school for either advocating Islam or atheism, which means it is open season on children for either of them.

Yes, the whole thing is crappy, but again goes to my point that the best outcome we can hope for in the near future is for schools to be a “neutral zone”. Though they can’t get any good in there, at least it will be hopefully possible to keep out as much evil as parents can.