The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on April 09, 2021, 07:34:39 pm
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Federal judge flays Wayne State for bias against Christian student club
https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/judge-holds-university-officials-personally-liable-bias-against-christian-club (https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/judge-holds-university-officials-personally-liable-bias-against-christian-club)
Public university officials violated the constitutional rights of a Christian student group and will now face a trial to set the compensatory damages for that violation, a court ruled this week.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship had operated continuously at Michigan's Wayne State University "since the 1930s" — until campus officials stripped its recognition in 2017 for "requiring that its faith leaders profess to be faithful," U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland wrote in a scathing 83-page ruling.
"The uncontested facts demonstrate" that the taxpayer-funded institution and two officials violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause and the club's rights to "internal management, free speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, and free exercise as a matter of law."
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... An official for Wayne State had demanded InterVarsity amend its own constitution to allow anyone to be in leadership, even if they disagree with the religious beliefs of the organization. InterVarsity refused, so Wayne State de-registered the club in 2017.
Deregistration cut InterVarsity off from some funds and had the larger effect of removing the group as a normal part of campus life. ...
College Fix (https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-club-wins-court-battle-against-university-judge-rules-officials-violated-students-constitutional-rights/).
Trying to picture a scenario where this university would tell a Muslim student organization it was required to permit Jews to be in leadership.
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absoutely