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Church and State and Student Activities

By ADF Alliance Alert

Inside Higher Ed: A news release Monday from the Alliance Defense Fund, which backs the rights of religious students nationally and in this case, said that the court had found that the university "cannot deny funding to Catholic student group." . . . The statement from the Alliance Defense Fund, which sued Madison, praised the appeals court's ruling. "The constitutional rights of Christian student organizations should be recognized by university officials just as they recognize those rights for other student groups,? said Jordan Lorence, senior counsel. "The university funded the advocacy and expression of other student organizations but singled out Badger Catholic for exclusion based purely upon its viewpoint. The Seventh Circuit rightly regarded this as unconstitutional."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).