The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a Christian student group that had been denied recognition by a public law school in California for excluding homosexuals and nonbelievers. The case pits anti-discrimination principles against religious freedom.
The group, the Christian Legal Society, says it welcomes all students to participate in its activities. But it does not allow students to become voting members or to assume leadership positions unless they affirm what the group calls orthodox Christian beliefs and disavow “unrepentant participation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle.” Such a lifestyle, the group says, includes “sexual conduct outside of marriage between a man and a woman.”
The law school, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, part of the University of California, allows some 60 recognized student groups to use meeting space, bulletin boards and the like so long as they agree to a policy that forbids discrimination on various grounds, including religion and sexual orientation. The school withdrew recognition from the Christian group after it refused to comply with the policy.
Anti-discrimination laws are now the preferred way for the state to coerce others into state approved conformity.
Apparently, diversity is only diversity when it’s my kind of diversity. Judge Wood, on Obama’s short list for SC, writing a dissent in a 7th Circuit case said, “Given that universities have a compelling interest in diverse student bodies, requiring a university to include exclusionary groups might undermine the ability to attain such diversity.” It’s obvious that “diversity” has become an important tool for promoting the liberationists’ agenda.