Supreme Court says Jewish university must recognize LGBTQ group

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The Supreme Court decided Wednesday not to block an order from a lower court stating that Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution located in New York, is required to recognize an LGBTQ student group.

The lower court ordered Yeshiva to recognize the group in accordance with the state of New York’s anti-discrimination law. While the law does contain an exemption for religious institutions, a judge found that the school’s charter identifies it as an “educational corporation” and not a religious one.

The court also disagreed that New York’s anti-discrimination law, called the New York Human Rights Law, violates the school’s first amendment rights.

According to CNN, Judge Lynn R. Kotler stated that the law “does not target religious practice, its intent is to deter discrimination, only, and it applies equally to all places of public accommodation other than those expressly exempted as distinctly private or a religious corporation organized under the education or religious law.”

Yeshiva argued to the Supreme Court that this decision is…

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