Posted on 12/06/2021 5:45:17 PM PST by simpson96
IOWA CITY — Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization by punishing it for barring an openly gay member from becoming a leader of the group, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.
In a pair of judgments from lawsuits that the Business Leaders in Christ student group — known as BLinC — filed against the UI in 2017 and that Intervarsity Christian Fellowship filed in 2018, the U.S. District Court ordered the university to pay a combined $1.93 million for attorney fees and damages.
On Monday, the State Appeal Board approved writing two checks to The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C.-based legal firm that represented both BLinC and Intervarsity in their lawsuits against the public university.
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The UI received its final blow in the lengthy litigation over the summer when a panel of U.S. appellate judges sided with the student groups in blasting the institution for clear viewpoint discrimination.
“What the university did here was clearly unconstitutional,” according to a July decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. “It targeted religious groups for differential treatment under the human rights policy — while carving out exemptions and ignoring other violative groups with missions they presumably supported.”
The court found that the university and the named defendants — including then-UI President Bruce Harreld and then-UI Vice President of Student Life Melissa Shivers — “turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence or they proceeded full speed ahead knowing they were violating the law.”
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It’s not enough. We need to divide America into two countries now.
“. . . the state will pay. . . ,”
You MUST know that “the state” does not pay — poor suffereing taxpayers will pay!
The PooBahs who made the bad decision did NOT pay, and they still have their jobs!
What a deal! Make a poor, unconstitutional decision and suffer NO consequences!
It’s not enough. We need to divide America into two countries now
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We somehow need to find a way to start moving the needle in the other direction morality wise. If we split in 2, it would only be a matter of time before the ‘good’ half would find itself in the same situation. For example if we split in two right now who would be the leader of our side? Trump? A month before the 2020 election Melania came out with a speech to proudly announce that her husband was the first president to enter the office supporting gay marriage. And she is supposedly Catholic and Trump is constantly talking about faith in God. We need to take every opportunity possible to speak the truth about what’s actually the word of God and what is nonsense pushed by leftists looking to destroy this nation.
There are 2 things that have to force change 1) dems losing at the ballot box and 2) dems being sued in court.
Just what China wants. The two Americas will then war against each other. China will pick one side to back. Then China will have its forces plus half of the US to attack the other half of the US. China wins.
they proceeded full speed ahead knowing they were violating the law.”
What do you propose? We are two countries. We can’t even agree on an economic system. It’s hopeless and WE are losing.
The university should be punished beyond that.
From where I sit china is already winning. They run the country.
Ca-ching!!!
“It targeted religious groups for differential treatment.” Yup. That’s what people do when they are stuck in Original Sin and haven’t been matured by His grace.
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