{"id":184,"date":"2010-06-28T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-rules-against-anti-gay-christian-law-school-group.html"},"modified":"2010-06-28T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:50:31","slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-anti-gay-christian-law-school-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-rules-against-anti-gay-christian-law-school-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules Against Christian Law School Group That Bars Gays, Non-Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Updated at 6 p.m. EST to add the RNS link.) <\/em>It&#8217;s a busy news day for the Supreme Court, not even including<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2010\/06\/28\/VI2010062801599.html\"> Elena Kagan&#8217;s confirmation hearings <\/a>&#8212; Reuters reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100628\/ts_nm\/us_usa_christian_gays\">SCOTUS has ruled in favor of the University of California&#8217;s Hastings College of Law, which&nbsp;refused to recognize the Christian Legal Society<\/a> due to its exclusion of gay members and non-Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s policy is that campus groups must be open to all students; only officially recognized groups can receive school funding and other benefits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-upholds-hastings-law.html\">Religion Clause has more on this story<\/a>, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-rules-against-ch.php\">Religion News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updated at 6 p.m. EST to add the RNS link.) 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