Equal Access Act.

In a 1981 case entitled Widmar v. Vincent Widmar v. Vincent[Widmar v. Vincent] , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a student religious group at the University of Missouri Missouri, University of should be allowed to use campus facilities for its meetings. The state-supported public institution had previously allowed only nonreligious student groups access to its facilities. When it was approached by members of a student religious group, the university denied the group use of its facilities in order not to violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In deciding in favor of these students, the Court ruled that allowing only nonreligious groups to use the same facilities violated the religious groups’ rights to freedom of speech. Equal Access Act