Yeshiva University halts clubs amid high court LGBTQ ruling

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https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-religion-new-york-bd4776983efde66b94d4a2fad325dc89

Yeshiva University halts clubs amid high court LGBTQ ruling

Associated Press
September 17, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize — for now — an LGBTQ student group.

In an email to students, university officials on Friday said that it “hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect YU’s religious freedom.”

On Wednesday, the high court cleared the way for the LGBTQ group, YU Pride Alliance, to gain official recognition from the Jewish university in New York.

The undergraduate group describes itself as “a supportive space for all students, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, to feel respected, visible, and represented.”

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1. Summary by Amy Howe:

https://amylhowe.com/2022/09/14/in-5-4-vote-court-denies-yeshiva-universitys-request-to-block-state-ruling-on-lgbtq-recognition/

In 5-4 vote, court denies Yeshiva University’s request to block state ruling on LGBTQ recognition

Sep 14 2022

Five days after Justice Sonia Sotomayor temporarily put on hold a New York state court ruling that directed Yeshiva University to approve an official “Pride Alliance” student club, the full Supreme Court reinstated the state-court ruling for now and directed the university to go back to the state courts to try to obtain relief.

But a dissent by four of the court’s conservative justices indicated that the student club’s victory could ultimately be short-lived. Justice Samuel Alito wrote that, if the Supreme Court were to take up the case on the merits, the university would likely prevail on its claim that recognizing the LGBTQ group would violate its religious beliefs. He was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.

The five-justice majority acknowledged that the case could end up back before the justices after the university jumps through procedural hoops. The majority’s brief order went out of its way to note that the university may return to the Supreme Court if it does not obtain a quick ruling in its favor from New York’s appellate courts.

Although they did not publicly record their votes, the four-justice dissent means that the two remaining conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, must have joined their three liberal colleagues – Sotomayor and Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – in voting to deny the university’s request. The order denying the request indicated that the majority saw procedural problems with intervening in the dispute at its current stage.

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2. What about the "religious liberty" of

non-orthodox and secular Jews?