Flagrant Discrimination! Yale Law School Will No Longer Give Stipends to Students Working for Christian, Conservative Organizations

Calvin Freiburger : Apr 3, 2019
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"Law students and graduates will still receive funding to work at organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union that defend abortion, for example. But if students and graduates want to work for ADF or other similarly situated religious or conservative organizations, they will get no help." -Aaron Haviland

(New Haven, CT)—[Lifesitenews.com] In the latest reminder that traditional Christian values are increasingly unwelcome in modern academia, Yale Law School has reportedly excluded students who work at organizations that stand by Biblical teachings on homosexuality from several financial support programs. (Image: Yale Law School/Wikimedia Commons/via LifeSiteNews)

Aaron Haviland, a Yale Law student and Marine Corps veteran, reports at The Federalist that on March 25, the school announced its "nondiscrimination" policy was being expanded to summer public interest fellowships, post-graduate public interest fellowships, and loan forgiveness for careers in public interest. Specifically, these resources would no longer be made available to students and graduates who joined organizations that supposedly "discriminate" on the basis of "sexual orientation and gender identity and expression."

"Yale Law School does not and should not support discrimination against its own students, financially or otherwise," declared a unanimous recommendation from Yale's Public Interest Committee. "Obviously, the Law School cannot prohibit a student from working for an employer who discriminates, but that is not a reason why Yale Law School should bear any obligation to fund that work, particularly if that organization does not give equal employment opportunity to all of our students."

The move came a month after the campus LGBT group Outlaws raised objections to the Yale Federalist Society inviting an Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney to discuss the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. Outlaws called on the school to both "clarify" its admissions policies for students who agreed with ADF and deny financial support to students who take summer jobs or fellowships with such groups... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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