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September 2, 2022

Why the Case of the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance Matters for Religious Freedom in America

The dangers of “an unreasonably crabbed view of what it means to be a religious believer.”

After some deliberation, New York City’s Yeshiva University (YU) declined an application for official status from an undergraduate gay and lesbian group, the Pride Alliance. But Lynn Kotler, a New York state judge, recently ruled that the school must reverse course, on the grounds that it is not entitled to a religious exemption from the New York City Human Rights Law. YU has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. Dan McLaughlin analyzes the constitutional issues at hand:

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