Published: 13 September 2022
Last updated: 5 March 2024
Without the court's intervention the university would have been forced to recognise YU Pride Alliance, which it says is in violation of its religious values.
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday permitted Yeshiva University to refuse to recognise an LGBT student club that the Jewish school in New York City has said violates its religious values, temporarily blocking a judge's ruling ordering it to allow the group.
Sotomayor put on hold the judge's ruling that a city anti-discrimination law required Yeshiva University to recognize YU Pride Alliance as a student club while the school pursues an appeal in a lower court.
Sotomayor, a liberal judge, issued an injunction which will allow the university to ban the club until a further order is made.
"We are grateful that Justice Sotomayor stepped in to protect Yeshiva’s religious liberty in this case," Eric Baxter, a lawyer for Yeshiva at the conservative legal group Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said in a statement.
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US Supreme Court's Sotomayor lets Yeshiva University bar LGBT student club for now (Reuters)
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