“What this means is that the government is now aligning itself with anti-LGBTQ hate in order to vigorously defend an exemption that everyone knows causes severe harm to LGBTQ students using taxpayer money,” Paul Carlos Southwick, director of the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, which filed the case in March on behalf of dozens of current and past students at conservative religious colleges and universities, told The Washington Post on Tuesday. “It will make our case harder if the federal government plans to vigorously defend it like they have indicated.”

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2021 04:53 UTC