Supreme Court allows Jewish university to deny LGBTQ group

The Supreme Court of the United States has granted temporary permission for an Orthodox Jewish university in New York to deny official recognition to an LGBTQ student group, reports Al Jazeera.

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.

On Friday 9 September, 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.
Full report on the Al Jazeera site