WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Christian students whose proposed Bible club was denied official recognition and funding at their high school.

Officials at Kentridge High School in Washington state refused to charter the Truth Bible Club in 2001. They cited the group's name, the fact that students would have to pledge to Jesus Christ to vote in the club, and that chartering the club would bring religion into the school.

The club's would-be founders sued the Kent School District, claiming discrimination. But the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that the students' constitutional rights were not violated.

The school district says chartered student groups must be open to all, without requiring a faith pledge or adherence to a Christian code of conduct.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?