News: Can Religious Groups Exclude Non-Believers?

News: Can Religious Groups Exclude Non-Believers?: "Yale Law School professor Robert Post said the cases will help describe the purpose of public education, such as whether schools should teach ecumenism. The cases could turn on whether teaching non-discrimination is a legitimate educational purpose for government, Post said.

Christian groups are relying on two Supreme Court decisions from 2000 to make their case. In one, the court held 5-4 that the Boy Scouts of America had a 1st Amendment right to exclude homosexuals. Whether that case applies to groups that accept public funds, as Christian groups are arguing, has not been resolved."
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.../... But Ruth Colker, an OSU law professor who circulated a petition against the school's ruling signed by a majority of law school faculty, said, "I don't see how we promote tolerance by a policy of exclusion."

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