Appeals Court Denies Immunity To University Officials Who Apparently Banned A Christian Student Group Just Because They Didn t Like It techdirt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from techdirt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Religious groups should be able to choose their own religious leaders desmoinesregister.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from desmoinesregister.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Qualified immunity won t protect college administrators who discriminate against religion
The school used a policy meant to protect religious groups to exclude them instead. That violates the Constitution.
Daniel Blomberg
Opinion contributor
College officials have been put on notice: targeting religious student groups isn’t just unconstitutional, it’s costly. A federal court of appeals this month agreed with my firm, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, that University of Iowa officials “turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence” by punishing Christian, Muslim, and Sikh groups for the crime of asking their leaders to agree with their faith.
Court win for InterVarsity applauded by Southern Baptists thetimestribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetimestribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.