Universities Rejecting LGBT Students Essential To Religious Liberty, New Coalition Claims

Since February, California lawmakers have been considering a bill that would protect LGBT college students from discrimination by religious universities. On Tuesday, a national coalition of anti-LGBT conservatives, led by one of the largest denominations in the country, issued a joint letter opposing that legislation on the grounds that it infringes on religious liberty.

Senate Bill 1146 is a response to the many religious universities that have sought exemptions to Title IX, the federal law that protects against discrimination on the basis of sex in education. In recent years, the Department of Education has increasingly suggested that Title IX protects transgender students, officially issuing guidance to that effect in May. Likewise, a federal judge in California ruled in December that the law also likely protects against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. But Title IX allows universities to obtain a waiver if they have religious beliefs about sex, and there has been a surge in requests — such that the organization Campus Pride now maintains a “Shame List” of the dozens of schools who want to discriminate against LGBT students....
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