Christian values continue to be under assault in America’s public high schools.

Two months ago, Cambridge Christian School in Tampa, Florida, asked the Florida High School Athletic Association if it could use the loudspeaker to share a prayer before the Class 2A championship game. The reply was a swift no. The school is fighting back — and last week it threatened a lawsuit against the FHSAA.

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Dig a little for other instances of the denial of prayer on school grounds, and they are not hard to find. Last October, Joe Kennedy was suspended from his position as assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington state for leading a quick prayer at midfield after each game; the prayer was open to both teams. He refused to stop doing so, which led to the school’s actions.

This type of religious discrimination is happening not just on the athletic fields, but in school hallways, too.

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When a group of students at Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana, wanted to start a faith-based club at their school last May, interested students said the club would offer “specific supports to heterosexual students.”

The principal of the high school, Jeff Henderson, said federal law required the school to allow the club, the Associated Press and other news outlets reported. So a teacher stepped forward to sponsor the club, and it seemed the kids were on their way.

Then things got truly crazy.

A community outcry discouraged the sponsoring teacher from participating, and suddenly the kids who wanted the prayer-based club needed a good talking to, as the Indiana Herald-Times reported.

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Tensions had been bubbling up at the school since students affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance demonstrated at school the month before, during National Day of Silence, guidance counselor Greg Chaffin said at the time. The students hung posters and even put tape over their mouths in protest.

But at least one teacher wouldn’t allow students to wear the tape in the classroom. Some GSA students reported being called names, or having the tape on their mouths removed.

The faith-based club was viewed by some as a reaction to tensions after the National Day of Silence.

“Whether or not they find sponsorship, I think we need to have discussions around why these students felt compelled to have this group and what that means for our schools, our community and our Gay Straight Alliance,” said Chaffin.

Bloomington High School North parent Amy Makice was saddened by the proposed “straight pride” club, and suggested that the answer was more training for faculty.

“Teachers are great and love the students and care about them, but they don’t know what issues come up with LGBT kids and how to best support them, help them and welcome them,” she said. “A training on helping and supporting LGBT students … We should be leading the way in that.”

Lost in the uproar was the club itself, and the kids’ legal right to start one. LifeZette reached out to Henderson, the principal, for comment, but did not hear back.

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“What you guys are all hearing is not true,” Kole Jones, one of the organizers of the group, told wishtv.com. “Prayer-based, faith-based is always what we intended for it to be.”

“As a matter of free speech and free association, the matter is clear; this group had every right to form a club,” Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, told LifeZette. “The principal was correct in his assessment of the federal legality of the club.”

The dust-up begs not only the question of legality, but of common sense. A separate but equal club, surely, is a fair and viable solution.

Instead, the new PC protocol is to train people — students and teachers — to abandon their values at the classroom door, and keep any thoughts other than the politically correct GSA-affirming thoughts to themselves. And to continue to give sexual identity a seat in the front row of the nation’s classrooms.

“Any minors forming clubs around their sexuality alone is not good, period — unless it is centered around abstinence, or good moral values,” said Sprigg.

One wonders which term turned the community and the school against the club the most: “heterosexual,” or “faith-based.”

One thing seems clear: In a Gay Straight Alliance club, “alliance” really means conformity, or else.