Faith-based student group accuses University of Iowa of continued discrimination

[TexasTowelie]

IOWA CITY — The faith-based student organization sparring with the University of Iowa over conflicting allegations of discrimination is re-upping its accusations of unfair treatment — telling a federal judge the university is in a position of power, which it’s abusing.

“Since the university controls our grades, our degrees, and in some cases our paychecks, and can have significant influence on our future employment, the university’s accusations make us worry that we will be treated unfairly,” organization members said in new documents filed in the case pitting the UI against student group Business Leaders in Christ.

Recruiting new members, and specifically new leaders, to join the 5-year-old student organization — which goes by BLinC — has been challenged since UI administrators in fall 2017 deregistered the group for denying an openly-gay member the chance to be a leader.

Accused of discrimination and violating the UI human rights policy, BLinC fought back with its own discrimination claim, filing a federal lawsuit accusing the UI of violating the group’s First Amendment rights and treating it differently for its religious policies.

Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/faith-based-student-group-accuses-university-of-iowa-of-continued-discrimination-business-leaders-in-christ-blinc-20190205

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Hmmm. Faith based group thinks they're being discriminated against.

Exactly how, please tell.

Just because you're a member of a faith based group, and the school itself isn't faith based, does NOT mean you're being discriminated against. Honest.

[bobbieinok]

2. It's the usual claim by Religious Right that they're discriminated against because they're vs gays

They contend the bible condemns homosexuality. (There are only 6 to 7 verses in OT and NT that that group says condemn gays. Recent textual analyses/mistranslation histories reveal they're living in a bubble.)

Since that Religious Right group believes their religion requires that they condemn gays, anyone forbidding them to do that is attacking their freedom of religion.

'How dare you tell me I can't do what my God tells me I must do!'

Yrs ago there was a court case against a Native American group that used peyote in its religious ritual. I wonder what Religious Right groups said about THEIR 'freedom of religion'?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Oh, yes.

They are being discriminated against because they can't discriminate against others. What exactly is the problem, she said sarcastically.

What enrages me is the claim that their right to discriminate supersedes anything else. They claim they're being discriminated against only because they can't practice their discrimination against others. Meanwhile, their churches are not being shut down. They are not being prohibited from teaching their highly discriminatory beliefs. They continue to get to promulgate their version of belief. Dear lord, I despise such people.

[gay texan]

4. Help! Help! I'm being persecuted!!!!

LMAO