ACTUAL BIGOTRY:

Student group sues Rutgers over policy (JOHN MOONEY, December 31, 2002, Newark Star-Ledger)

An evangelical Christian student group filed a discrimination suit yesterday against Rutgers University, alleging its constitutional rights were violated when Rutgers barred the group from campus facilities or funding due to its policy that its leaders must be Christian. [...]

There is little court precedent specific to this issue, but legal experts said a couple of recent cases may side with InterVarsity's argument. Among them was the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2000 allowing the Boy Scouts of America from barring a homosexual as a scout leader.

"The notion, for example, that I (as a Jew) would have a right to be the head of a Christian group is absurd," said Mark Stern, attorney for the American Jewish Congress, a leading advocate for church-state separation. "After the Boy Scout decision, this is a total no-brainer."

Rutgers' InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the local chapter of a nationwide campus organization for evangelical Christians, has existed at the state university for decades and this year has about 15 to 20 active members.

But it came under the school's microscope this fall during a standard review of its constitution, when it refused to include a blanket anti-discrimination statement required by the school.

If you want to see these schools stop their blatant religious bigotry, here's how: recruit a couple fraternities full of guys to all join something like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance or the Black Student Fellowship or whatever and then vote themselves into the officer positions and use the organization's money for a keg party. Suddenly these student councils will see the wisdom of allowing organizations to control their own membership rolls. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 31, 2002 5:14 PM