Christian colleges can receive Title IX funds and uphold religious beliefs on LGBT issues ...

[Pete Ross Junior]

Christian colleges can receive Title IX funds and uphold religious beliefs on LGBT issues, judge rules

A federal court has ruled that Christian colleges and universities with traditional views on sexuality and marriage can continue to receive funding through Title IX, rejecting LGBT students' efforts to strike down a religious exemption to federal discrimination law.

In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Oregon dismissed the case filed by a group of LGBT Christian college students and former students who sued the U.S. Department of Education in 2021 for providing religious exemption to Title IX discrimination laws to Christian higher education institutions.

Aiken, a Clinton appointee, concluded that plaintiffs failed to show that the original religious exemption granted by Congress decades ago for Title IX has a discriminatory purpose.

"Plaintiffs have submitted no allegations of discriminatory motivation on the part of those enacting the religious exemption. To the contrary, Plaintiffs argue that when Congress enacted Title IX, protections for — or discrimination against sexual and gender minorities — were 'of no concern,'" wrote Aiken.

[Timeflyer]

1. But--separation of church and state? Is that not a thing anymore?

[walkingman]

4. Definitely not a thing anymore - actually it never has been.

Separation of church and state refers to the attempt to keep government from influencing religion and religion from influencing government to the greatest extent possible. This "concept" refers more to the establishment clause doctrine that was overturned when SCOTUS ruled on the Dobbs case (Roe v Wade).

Since we are now living with a very political SCOTUS I would not be surprised if many rulings based on the establishment clause are overturned and Justice Thomas has publicly stated that.

Without freedom from religion, there is no freedom of religion...

[ShazzieB]

2. The worst part is that if this is appealed to SCOTUS, the Gang of 6 are bound to uphold it.

That's my new nickname for the 6 conservatives on the Extreme Court: the Gang of 6. If I was a political cartoonist, I'd draw those 6 as a pack of gangbangers.

[Faux pas]

3. Kickin' with DISGUST