(The Daily Citizen) Lawyers with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have been busy of late racking up important wins for the religious freedom of college campus clubs in Texas and the free speech rights of pro-life supporters in front of abortion clinics in California.
In Texas, ADF represents Ratio Christi, a Christian apologetics organization with student chapters on various university campuses across the country. As The Daily Citizen recently reported, ADF initiated a lawsuit on Ratio Christi’s behalf after the club was denied “official” status at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) because of the club’s requirement that the group’s leaders agree to live by the mission and values of the Christian organization.
The university based its denial of official status on those leadership requirements, saying they violated the school’s nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and many other categories. Apparently, agreeing to live by biblical principles was considered “discriminatory.”