NY Court Orders Yeshiva University to Recognize LGBTQ Club
December 17, 2022 | New York
Yeshiva University (YU), an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City, has been ordered by a state appeals court to recognize a campus LGBTQ group.
The university said being forced to recognize the group, the YU Pride Alliance, would violate its values and its U.S. constitutional rights of religious freedom.
In its ruling Wednesday, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court ruled that YU does not meet the legal standard of a religious corporation exempt from the New York City Human Rights Law.
The Appellate Division also rejected the university’s claim its First Amendment protection of religious freedom would be violated. It noted the university has recognized LGBTQ student organizations at three of its graduate schools for more than 25 years and made clear as early as 1995 that such recognition did not mean Yeshiva endorsed or accepted the views of those student groups.
“We find that providing the Pride Alliance with full and equal access to public accommodations does not intrude on Yeshiva’s asserted right to decide matters ‘of faith and doctrine'” the court wrote.
University spokesman Hanan Eisenman said Yeshiva will continue to appeal the case….(Excerpt from Newsmax)
