Supreme Court To Review Religious Discrimination At Public Universities

Should a public law school fund clubs on campus that discriminate on religious grounds? The U.S. Supreme Court will answer this question when it soon hears such a case coming from California.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Should a public law school fund clubs on campus that discriminate on religious grounds?

The U.S. Supreme Court will answer this question when it soon hears such a case coming from California.

The case centers on the Christian Legal Society which sought taxpayer subsidies and an official status at Hastings College of Law at the University of California in San Francisco.

However, the club bans gays and non-Christians from membership. Its voting members are required to sign a statement of faith to an evaneglical Christian theology.

Hastings College of Law, though, has policies banning such discrimination on its campus and therefore refused to accept the club’s requests.

An appeals court ruled in the college’s favor.

Said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, “Public schools have every right – indeed, an obligation – to refuse to advance religious discrimination.”