Supreme Court refuses to hear Christian college’s lawsuit about transgender student housing

Williams Memorial Chapel, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a private Christian college’s legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s executive order prohibiting LGBTQ+ housing discrimination.

On Biden’s first day in office, he signed a sweeping executive order instructing executive agencies to interpret federal civil rights legislation as already banning discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in many areas of the law, including housing discrimination.

A month later, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a directive updating its interpretation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) to forbid LGBTQ+ housing discrimination based on people’s sex or gender, The Hill reported.

In April 2021, the Missouri-based College of the Ozarks sued the Biden Administration, stating that its Christian faith required the college to…

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