In 1990, a senior at Westside High school, Bridget Mergens, in Omaha, Nebraska asked her homeroom instructor, who was also the school's principal, for consent to begin an after-school Christian club. As of now Westside High School had around 30 clubs, including a chess club and a scuba-diving club. The principal denied Bridget's solicitation, advising her that a religious club would be illicit in a government funded school. In the prior year of 1984, Congress had tended to this issue in the Equal Access Act, which required state funded schools to permit religious and political clubs on the off chance that they give understudies a chance to shape different sorts of understudy interest clubs. At the point when Bridget tested the principal's
