Religious organizations' religious discrimination and government funding

Volokh, Eugene VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu
Wed Sep 22 21:22:27 PDT 2004


	From http://cjonline.com/stories/092204/loc_lawsuit.shtml:

	"The Christian Legal Society chapter at Washburn University has
filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Topeka against university
officials who revoked the society's funding after a student alleged
discrimination.

	"The dispute began in the spring semester when Washburn law
student Daniel Arkell volunteered to lead a Bible study at a meeting of
the Christian Legal Society. Arkell, a member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared religious beliefs during several
Bible studies that some members of CLS thought were inconsistent to the
statement of faith of the Christian Legal Society. The society then
decided not to allow Arkell to lead further Bible studies.

	"Arkell filed a charge of religious discrimination in April
against CLS and asked the Washburn Student Bar Association to revoke
funding for CLS. The bar association revoked the CLS chapter's funding
on Sept. 2 after a hearing."

	The complaint is at
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/092104/washburn.pdf .  Do people think
the CLS should win?   Hsu v. Roslyn Union Free School Dist., 85 F.3d 839
(2d Cir.1996), would seem to point in their favor, if the case's Equal
Access Act logic were found to be applicable to the Free Speech Clause
analysis.

	Eugene


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