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Denver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability to organize on campus and set their own stan.
Preserving the current rule means ‘students of all faiths will remain free to establish and maintain communities defined by shared religious commitments on th.
null / Credit: NaruFoto/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability to organize on campus and set their own standards for leaders if the Biden administration s proposed rule change is finalized, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.The existing rules are "commonsense protection for faith-based student organizations that have faced discrimination on many public college campuses for nearly four decades," the general counsel s office of the U.S. bishops conference said in March 23 comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Education."By protecting students of all faiths, the existing regulations ensure that students of all religious faiths will be welcome on public college campuses, thereby enhancing authentic religious diversity on those campuses," the bishops letter said. To rescind the rules would tell religious student gr