The US Supreme Court is expected to rule this morning in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, a case revolving around the question of whether, as the SCOTUS Wiki described it, “a public university law school may deny school funding and other benefits to a religious student organization because the group requires its officers and voting members to agree with its core religious viewpoints,” including opposition to homosexuality and extramarital sex.
This case is a big deal for student governments and student activists from a bunch of perspectives, and it’ll have really interesting implications however it’s decided. I’ll have the results here as soon as they’re announced, and a full analysis of the opinion later today.
Update: The Court ruled in favor of the college, with all four of the Court’s conservatives dissenting, declaring that the policy requiring that all recognized student groups be open to all students was constitutional — or, as I put it on Twitter, that “campus Christian group can’t bar membership to pro-gay students.” The decision can be found here.
There are 85 pages of opinion and dissent in this ruling, and I’m printing them out right now. More when I get the chance.

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June 28, 2010 at 10:29 am
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June 28, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Dan
I’m a fan of this passage in Stevens’ concurrence:
“In this case, petitioner excludes students who will not sign its Statement of Faith or who engage in “unrepentant homosexual conduct,” App. 226. The expressive associa-tion argument it presses, however, is hardly limited tothese facts. Other groups may exclude or mistreat Jews,blacks, and women—or those who do not share their con-tempt for Jews, blacks, and women. A free society must tolerate such groups. It need not subsidize them, give them its official imprimatur, or grant them equal access to law school facilities”