Religious Civil Rights In Public High Schools: The Supreme Court Speaks on Equal Access

Authors

Richard F. Duncan, University of Nebraska College of LawFollow

Date of this Version

1990

Citation

Indiana Law Review (1990) 24: 111-133.

Comments

Copyright 1990, University of Indiana. Used by permission.

Abstract

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Board of Education v. Mergens, which upheld the constitutionality of the Equal Access Act and decided that the Act was violated on the facts before the Court, must be viewed against the background of governmental discrimination and the struggle for religious civil rights. Mergens is truly a civil rights case, and we must heed its lessons if we are serious about our claim to be a fair, open, and pluralistic society.