Saturday, August 28, 2010

News: Legal Loss for Anti-Gay Student - Inside Higher Ed

News: Legal Loss for Anti-Gay Student - Inside Higher Ed
In his ruling, Judge Hall tried hard to keep the case from becoming a culture wars flash point. "[T]his is not a case pitting Christianity against homosexuality," he wrote. What the case was about, he wrote, was the right of a public university to enforce reasonable academic standards. He wrote that "matters of educational policy should be left to educators and it is not the proper role of federal judges to second guess an educator's professional judgment."