{"id":104255,"date":"2021-07-20T17:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104255"},"modified":"2021-07-20T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:08:39","slug":"ap-court-upholds-ruling-in-favor-of-intervarsity-at-u-of-iowa-we-are-hard-pressed-to-find-a-clearer-example-of-viewpoint-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104255","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Court Upholds Ruling in Favor of InterVarsity at U of Iowa&#8211;\u201cWe are hard-pressed to find a clearer example of viewpoint discrimination\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys with the Iowa Attorney General\u2019s Office listed on court filings as representing the university in the lawsuit did not immediately return phone messages Friday seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>A UI spokeswoman, Anne Bassett, said in an email Friday afternoon that the university \u201crespects the decision of the court and will move forward in accordance with the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Blomberg, an attorney for InterVarsity, said Friday&#8217;s ruling puts other schools on notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools are supposed to be a place of free inquiry and open thought, but the school officials here punished opinions they didn\u2019t like and promoted ones they did \u2014 all while using taxpayer dollars to do it,\u201d Blomberg said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: a federal court affirmed that the University of Iowa discriminated against InterVarsity and other religious clubs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y6RYwol6QK\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y6RYwol6QK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1417605740882235392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys with the Iowa Attorney General\u2019s Office listed on court filings as representing the university in the lawsuit did not immediately return phone messages Friday seeking comment. A UI spokeswoman, Anne Bassett, said in an email Friday afternoon that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104255\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,168,114,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104256,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104255\/revisions\/104256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}