Via Daily Caller:
A California school district has backed down from censoring a first grader and has now agreed the student can share Bible verses with his classmates on school property during non-instructional time.
The Palmdale School District initially told the seven-year-old student, identified as “C”, he could only share the Bible verses after the school bell rang and only at the school gate. After he and his family complied, the student was told he could only hand out notes on the public sidewalk far from the exit of the school.
Even though C and his family agreed to comply to the second directive, a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff then came to the Zavalas family home and said C must stop sharing the notes because “someone might be offended,” according to Liberty Counsel, which agreed to represent the family against the school district.
“We celebrate this victory that acknowledges that students have constitutional rights to free speech to distribute literature during non-instructional times,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, in a prepared statement on Monday. “Now this young boy is free to share his Bible verses and stories with his classmates this year without hassle.”