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Eugene

(61,881 posts)
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 06:31 PM Sep 2022

Yeshiva University doesn't have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules

Source: CNN

Yeshiva University doesn't have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Updated 2156 GMT (0556 HKT) September 9, 2022

(CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed Friday night to temporarily block a lower court order that required Yeshiva University to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.

The order from Sotomayor -- who has jurisdiction over the lower court in the case -- suggested that the full Supreme Court is still considering the issue and will issue a more permanent order at a later time.

For now, the university is temporarily shielded from having to recognize the group.
The case is complicated by threshold issues -- such as the fact that New York State appeals courts have yet to rule on the merits of the dispute -- which could be slowing down the court's considerations.

Former and current students of the university brought the original challenge arguing that the school's position violated a New York public accommodation law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/yeshiva-university-supreme-court-sotomayor/index.html

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Yeshiva University doesn't have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
More Hate yankee87 Sep 2022 #1
Just because one group is/has been oppressed doesn't mean they are obligated to be "open". Behind the Aegis Sep 2022 #2

yankee87

(2,170 posts)
1. More Hate
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 10:36 AM
Sep 2022

What a travesty. You would think that people who have been marginalized and killed for who they are, would have compassion. I'm guessing the university wants to try to be part of MAGA morons going against our LGBTQI citizens. There is so much hatred.
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Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)
2. Just because one group is/has been oppressed doesn't mean they are obligated to be "open".
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 03:43 PM
Sep 2022

This particular issue is about a fundamentalist group and a private institution. I don't like what they are doing for obvious reasons (being gay AND Jewish), but it is the way it is...for now. MAGA is irrelevant to the equation.

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