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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a judge’s ruling ordering the Jewish school in New York City to officially recognize the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual group.
The state court ruling requiring Yeshiva University to recognize the Y.U. Pride Alliance was upheld by the justices.
The decision appears to have directed the case to the state court system. The decision said that the application was denied because it appeared that applicants had at least two more avenues for state court relief.
Conservative justices dissented. The justices were considering the university’s request when they temporarily blocked the judge’s order.
The school can return to the Supreme Court if the state courts don’t give them relief. We will obey the court’s instructions.
A lawyer for the Y.U. Pride Alliance said the decision was a victory for the students.
The sky is not going to fall down this year as a club for peer support will be established at Yeshiva University.
In order to maintain the religious environment it seeks to maintain, Yeshiva decided to deny official status to the group.
The New York City Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination by a place or provider of public accommodations on the basis of race, religion, or national origin.
In June, a New York state judge ruled that the school’s primary purpose is education and that it is subject to anti- discrimination law. The university argued that requiring it to recognize the club would violate its religious freedom.
Alito wrote that the First Amendment guarantees the right to the free exercise of religion, and if that provision means anything, it prohibits a state from implementing its own preferred interpretation of Holy Scripture. New York has done that in this case, and it is disappointing that a majority of the court doesn’t want to hear the case.
The US Supreme Court was asked to stay the judge’s ruling.
The Supreme Court was told by the school that complying with the order would violate its religious beliefs.
There are roughly 6,000 students at the Modern Orthodox Jewish university. The responsibility to reach out to others in compassion is one of the school’s values.
The United States Supreme Court in recent years has expanded religious rights while narrowing the separation of church and state.
3, the court will decide a major new legal fight pitting religious liberty against LGBT rights involving an evangelical Christian web designer’s free speech claim that she cannot be forced under a Colorado anti- discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex marriages
The story was written by Andrew Chung in New York.