The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a public school has the legal right to deny a Christian campus group recognition and funding if it bars gays from becoming voting members and taking on leadership positions.In a splintered 5-4 vote, the court ruled in favor of the unusual school policy of the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
The policy says that all campus groups must allow everybody to join, even if the person disagrees with the group’s values and views.
The Christian Legal Society welcomes anyone, regardless of their beliefs, to join the Bible studies, clarified Jordan Lorence, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund that was on the team representing Christian Legal Society, to The Christian Post. But the group requires voting members and officers to sign a statement of faith that includes, among other beliefs, a line about “unrepentant...
