American Supreme Court allows Jewish university to deny LGBTQ group

The US Supreme Court has granted temporary permission for an Orthodox Jewish university in New York to deny official recognition to an LGBTQ student group.

Yeshiva University turned to the court for an urgent ruling after a New York state judge said the school had to let the Pride Alliance register as a student association, which would give it access to certain facilities and services.. As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply with that order because doing so would violate its sincere religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students in Torah values,” the university stated in its appeal.

The university, however, offers many classes on subjects other than religion and has non-Jews among its student body, the Pride Alliance argued in response.

“It may not deny certain students access to the non-religious resources it offers the entire student community on the basis of sexual orientation,” the alliance said.. On Friday, the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, granted an emergency request by the university, suspending the state judge’s decision pending further deliberation. As is often the case in emergency rulings, the court did not give the reasoning behind its decision or a breakdown of the vote on it.