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?Religion vs. bias back in Supreme Court?

By Alliance Alert

Bay Windows ("GLBT Newspaper"): "In Christian Legal v. Martinez, a Christian law students? group contests a decision by the University of California?s Hastings College of Law, headed currently by acting chancellor Leo Martinez. The case also includes a gay student group, Outlaw, at the same school as a party to the defense . . . 'Like every other student group on Hastings? campus, it too has a choice,' say GLAD and Lambda. 'It can adhere to Hastings? general nondiscrimination policy or forego school funding.' The federal district court in San Francisco and the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with that logic and ruled for the university and Outlaw. Christian Legal, with the aid of the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in agreeing to hear that appeal, at least four justices had to indicate a willingness to consider their arguments."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).