Here's yet another case of a university refusing to recognize a Christian student group because they require that officers of the group be Christians, this time the University of Wisconsin. This is the same school that absurdly ruled that RAs could not hold bible studies in their rooms, even during their off hours, because it made them less "approachable". As I've written before, there are several such cases going around the country, but Wisconsin is in the same 7th judicial district. The controlling precedent there was just laid down by the court of appeals in CLS v Southern Illinois, which ruled that such a policy violates the group's right to expressive association (and rightly so). I can't imagine the UW counsel isn't telling the administration they better change their policy unless and until the Supreme Court overturns that ruling.
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I agree, but you should write it like this: "[...], which ruled (and rightly so) that such a policy violates the group's right to expressive association." Then we would only have to read the sentence once. I'm sure your ninth grade English teacher would agree. (And rightly so.)
Mmm, Dave M, I think you should have written, "Then we would have to read the sentence only once."