United States Supreme Court building in Washington DC, 2009 Yeshiva University in New York City asked the Supreme Court on Monday in an emergency filing to block a court order forcing the Orthodox Jewish university to officially recognize an LGBTQ club on campus. Renowned attorney Nathan Lewin , who has argued many times before the Supreme Court, says Yeshiva is “entirely right” to fight that court order, which he said violates the First Amendment. In an email exchange with JewishPress.com , Lewin said, “Yeshiva is entirely right in its constitutional claim that the New York courts violate the First Amendment by invoking a state law prohibiting gender discrimination to order Yeshiva to grant formal recognition as a student club to the Pride Alliance organization.” In YU Pride Alliance v. Yeshiva University , a small group of students is demanding that the University officially recognize an LGBTQ Pride Alliance club on campus. The lower court rulings would force Yeshiva to put its stamp of approval on a club and activities that are inconsistent with the school’s Torah values and the religious environment it seeks to maintain on its undergraduate campuses. “The Torah guides everything that we do at Yeshiva — […]
