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A Los Angeles-based conservative Christian group, Freedom X, filed the federal lawsuit last week against the school district for allegedly prohibiting Micah, 10, and Nieka Bausch, 8, from distributing flyers promoting Bring Your Bible to School Day back in October.

“I’m curious why schools think religious speech can be censored,” Bill Becker, president of Freedom X and the family’s attorney said, according to the Daily Bulletin. “To discriminate based on religious content is a violation of the First Amendment.” ...

“Respectfully sharing information during a free period on campus is one of the primary, and often only, outlets that kids have for expressing their values and putting their free-speech rights into practice,” Candi Cushman, who oversees the Bring Your Bible to School program, told Fox News.

“Shut down that right,” she added, “and you’ve pretty much squelched kids’ ability to direct any kind of student-led event.”

Becker expressed his frustration with the California school system.

“They are trying to push the idea of multiculturalism that is inclusive of Islam, but they are always willing to be exclusive of Christianity,” he told the Daily Bulletin. “It’s an upside-down world we have today, a backlash against the time when all schools were required to teach the Bible.”

Becker alleged the school’s principal told the boys’ mother: “As a public school, we cannot approve the distribution of religious materials to students during school hours.”

Haulk contends that when Polhemus contacted him with concern over the flyers, he assured her “the content is appropriate.”