Anti-Gay Christian Student Group Loses Last Appeal Against Hastings College Of Law’s Non-Discrimination Policy

The anti-gay Christian Legal Society that sued Hastings College of Law in San Francisco over its non-discrimination policy has lost its last claim against the school in a federal appeals court, reports SF Appeal. In June, the United States Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote upheld Hastings’ non-discrimination policy that requires any and all student organisations to open their membership to all students in order to receive official recognition as well as benefits, including funding from a student’s fees fund. The CLS did not meet that expectation, however, since it excludes members who are not Christian or who engage in “unrepentant homosexual conduct.” The Supreme Court did, however, allow a second claim in which CLS argued that Hastings unfairly enforced the policy selectively by highlighting the religious group for enforcement, the Supreme Court ordering the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider whether the CLS was entitled to pursue the selective enforcement claim. However, the three-judge panel Thursday ruled that the CLS could not maintain the claim now since “The Christian Legal Society never claimed that Hastings’ policy was selectively enforced.”