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Liberty Counsel has filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a law school student group of the Christian Legal Society (“CLS”). The CLS group naturally requires voting members and officers to uphold basic Christian principles and, thus, was denied the same student funds allowed to all other student groups at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, a public law school in San Francisco.

When a school provides equal access to everyone except a Christian group, it is plain and simple discrimination.

Liberty Counsel filed the amicus brief on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship and Lamb’s Chapel, both of which won ground-breaking equal access cases before the United States Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2001 in Good News Club v. Milford Central School that whenever the government establishes a “limited public forum,” it may not discriminate against speech because of its Christian viewpoint. Liberty Counsel’s brief focuses on Good News Club and how the Ninth Circuit’s ruling will adversely affect the equal access rights granted to religious groups in Good News Club.

Of all places, a law school should respect the robust freedom of the First Amendment. Political correctness aside, a public law school cannot give the boot to a Christian group simply because its views do not conform to the school’s discriminatory policies. 

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Read Liberty Counsel's Amicus Brief here.

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