Posted on 06/28/2010 8:21:47 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group that won't let gays join.
The court on Monday turned away an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and recognition from the University of California's Hastings College of the Law.
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LOL. Where are all these “conservatives” on these campuses? There aren’t enough to take over a phone booth.
There aren’t even enough to protect conservative speakers from the Left. They get run off of campuses from coast to coast on a regular basis.
Whaaa? You mean I have to put off my explosion of indignation and righteous outrage? Rats!!
Bullseye.
OMG you have three in college. My sympathies/congratulations. After my last was degreed, I retired.
I had five. One graduated, and the other is in graduate school, but that's being picked up by the US Navy. Of the 3 currently in, one is in NROTC, one is on athletic scholarship and the third is on partial academic scholarship. My wife was a homework Nazi, and it paid off - literally.
Good job. My wife passed 11 yrs ago but she would be happy to know our boys are well-educated and good men. Our elder son just returned from a six yr Naval enlistment wherein he was a Nuke on the USS Ohio. He is set up well now closer to home than Seattle.
My condolences on your loss.
I have one who's a Marine and already spent a tour in Afghanistan. Another who is already committed to the Navy and is in medical school, and a third who just completed their first year of NROTC.
I'm proud of them and their service, but as I'm sure you can appreciate, I'm happiest when they come home. People can't begin to understand how upsetting 6-12 month deployments can be.
It is hellish. I can’t even imagine being hundreds of feet underwater for months on end.
Tell your children that there are many of us out there who respect and value their service and sacrifice.
wonder if the muslim groups can ban homo’s, and adulterous women??? they kill both..... but then again, they are the obamantion’s people.....
wonder if the muslim groups can ban homo’s, and adulterous women??? they kill both..... but then again, they are the obamanation’s kin.... we gotta get him outta there....
The majority opinion specifically answered your question on page 29 of the PDF file in a footnote (the case reference is Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000)) ...
“In Southworth, university students challenged a mandatory student-activity fee used to fund student groups. Finding the political and ideological speech of certain groups offensive, the student-challengers argued that imposition of the fee violated their First Amendment rights. 529 U.S., at 221. This Court upheld the university’s choice to subsidize groups whose expression some students found distasteful, but we admonished that the university could not “prefer some viewpoints to others” in the distribution of funds. Id., at 233. We cautioned that the university’s referendum process, which allowed students to vote on whether a student organization would receive financial support, risked violation of this principle by allowing students to select groups to fund based on their viewpoints. Id., at 235. In this case, in contrast, the all-comers policy governs all RSOs; Hastings does not pick and choose which organizations must comply with he policy of the basis of viewpoint. App. 221. Southworth accordingly provides no support for the dissent’s warped analysis.”
So, in short, no. You can’t opt out of mandatory student activity fees even if you find some of the groups offensive. You can, however, sue if you aren’t subject to the same rules as everyone else.
They are not saying that every University has to have that policy. In this case, the University claimed that that really was their policy, and the Court held that the policy was not unconstitutional if it was applied to every group and not just used against the Christian group. The case was sent back to the lower court for hearings on that issue.
Homosexuality is an abomination.In the King James Version, Leviticus 18:22 is translated: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”20:13 If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
This is the WORD OF GOD!!
Thanks for this explanation.
IN the NYC area, the various MSA groups deny membership to include but not limited to:
Christians
Hindus
Sikhs
Jews
Gays
Northern Caucus Muslims
Yes, that’s what I was talking about.
It seems there may have been some action on that front way back when, but I don’t recall. Perhaps it was just discussion, with nothing further done.
Thanks for clarifying.
Thats how I see it.
You can’t adjust the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
The obvious purpose of the leftist degenerates is not to “join” a group but to destroy it by deconstructing its basic tenets from within. Homosexuals have been doing this with various denominations for decades.
This has been Hillsdale College's core principle from the start, in order to avoid any governmental regulation and imposed value system onto their excellent conservative educational system. No student grants or subsidized loans are allowed. Still, the college was sued and forced to allow some of this government funding to seep in, destoying in some measure their right to autonomy.
Expect this for groups which shun government funding. They will be forced to submit by other means. We no longer live in a free society.
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