Supreme Court Decision About Law School’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

Supreme Court Decision About Law School’s Anti-Discrimination Policy Tests Religious Right Power On College Campuses – And Elsewhere

Michael Flynn couldn’t be prouder of his alma mater. Hastings College of Law, where Flynn graduated in 2006, has stood up for his rights and the rights of his classmates – defending them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Though many other law schools caved to the demands of a Religious Right group called the Christian Legal Society (CLS), the San Francisco school stood its ground. In 2004, Hastings denied official recognition and public funding to CLS, a national organization with student chapters at law schools across the country.

The society requires all its members to sign an evangelical statement of faith and bars students who engage in “unrepentant homosexual conduct” from joining.

But Hastings, which is part of the University of California, requires that student groups remain open to all students in order to receive university funding and recognition. The school told the society it could not make an exception for CLS, but that “if CLS wishes to form independent of Hastings, [the university] would be pleased to provide the organization the use of Hastings facilities for its meetings and activities.”

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