Religious literature can be distributed in schools

WASHINGTON — An appeals court has ruled that an Arizona school district cannot prohibit distribution of literature advertising a program with religious content.

The decision May 22 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Scottsdale Unified School District policy.

“The district cannot refuse to distribute literature advertising a program with underlying religious content where it distributes quite similar literature for secular summer camps, but it can refuse to distribute literature that itself contains proselytizing language,” a three-judge panel concluded.