DC: Social conservatives are already leveraging Monday’s Supreme Court decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, claiming the 7-2 ruling vindicates their positions in a range of ongoing cases.
Though the justices avoided the primary constitutional questions animating disputes between same-sex couples and merchants of faith, religious dissenters believe the ruling’s unqualified condemnation of heavy-handed secularism buoys their legal prospects across the country.
Masterpiece was cited just one day after the decision was released in a brief the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed at a federal court in Michigan in connection with ongoing litigation between InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Wayne State University. InterVarsity, an evangelical campus ministry, is suing the university because its Wayne State chapter was stripped of school certification. Administrators found its constitution failed to comply with the college’s non-discrimination code.
InterVarsity requires chapter officers to embrace its organizational statement of faith, which consequently excludes non-Christians from leadership positions. As a result, Wayne State InterVarsity is prohibited from reserving free campus space, advertising on the student activities website, or engaging at official school events. more here
There is going to be a rush to delete comments and communications, and a whole lot of interesting discovery.
I can’t wait to see the knots the courts tie themselves into the first time a homosexual group sues a Muslim business. Although I won’t hold my breath.
Discrimination is only when a liberal is inconvenienced by moral standards.
Wayne State should be focusing on numerous murders committed in their parking garages.
Been there, read the book, got the t-shirt, had the parking permit, transferred before getting murdered.
So if the Wayne State Feminists Association refuses to put men in leadership positions, does that mean they get their credentials stopped as well? Or the campus chapter of CAIR for preventing Jewish women from eldership positions?