NEW YORK (AP) – The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club.
Join our WhatsApp groupSubscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
The court acted Friday in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that indicated the court would have more to say on the topic at some point.
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the group, the YU Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs.”
On the other side, the club said Yeshiva already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter is on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime.
The Supreme Court has been very receptive to religious freedom claims in recent years.
In June, conservatives who hold a 6-3 majority struck down a Maine program prohibiting state funds from being spent at religious schools and ruled a high school football coach in Washington state has the right to pray on the field after games.
The entire world is becoming rotten and degenerate like Sedom. Perhaps this is part of the pre Mashiach process.
The irony is that I’m sure a majority of YU students and alumni voted for Hillary and if she would have won the majority of SCOTUS would be liberal and the decision would have been the opposite. Elections matter!
How low we have sunk that this is even a case
Unfortunately this is a reflection of who we are. So no complaining. Start changing.
well, I now hate orthodox jews!
How dare they stand up for what they believe in!