{"id":699242,"date":"2010-03-23T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/supreme-court-case-pits-religious-versus-gay-rights\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:01:14","slug":"supreme-court-case-pits-religious-versus-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699242","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Case Pits Religious Versus Gay Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/justice_1961_19680292_0_0_7024953_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Supreme Court case pits religious versus gay rights \" align=\"right\" \/> Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Jewish Committee and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the University of California Hastings School of Law, whose nondiscrimination policy has been challenged by a religious group.<\/p>\n<p>The case was originally brought by the Christian Legal Society (CLS) whose Hasting chapter was denied official university recognition and funding because it would have violated the law school&#8217;s anti-bias policy. CLS bars gay members from joining, and as such does not conform to the public university&#8217;s policy which prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation, Inside Higher ED reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because CLS does not need to be an official student group to communicate its message effectively to the Hastings student body the group&#8217;s First Amendment interest in discriminating against non-believers and the university&#8217;s interest in ensuring that its sanctioned extracurricular activities are open to all students are not incompatible,&#8221; the brief states.<\/p>\n<p>Other organizations that have filed briefs in support of the school include American Council on Education, Lambda Legal and Gay &amp; Lesbian Advocates &amp; Defenders (GLAD).<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19680292-ADNFCR\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Jewish Committee and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the University of California Hastings School of Law, whose nondiscrimination policy has been challenged by a religious group. The case was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VU6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}