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California lawmaker drops lawsuits in religious school bill
Senate Bill 1146 would have pulled college subsidies from students who attend religious colleges unless those colleges strip their distinctive religious practices.
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Association members told Lara after his announcement that “pending review” of his new language, they would “support” his bill. It requires colleges granted the Title IX exemption to disclose its status to students and faculty. But Title IX allows universities to obtain a waiver if they have religious beliefs about sex, and there has been a surge in requests - such that the organization Campus Pride now maintains a “Shame List” of the dozens of schools who want to discriminate against LGBT students.
The President of NRB and several of the association’s members signed on to a multi-faith statement released on August 9 calling on the California Assembly to abandon a bill that specifically targets religious schools that wish to uphold tenets of faith counter to the state’s position on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Administrators at Southern California religious colleges such as Biola University in La Mirada, Azusa Pacific University and Loma Linda University opposed Lara’s bill as previously written.
In the statement, the signers acknowledge they do not all agree on religious issues but “all agree that the government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution’s faith-based identity against its American identity”.
The bill will be heard Thursday in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
“It’s a mediated settlement”, Jackson said. The increased public understanding of SB 1146 quickly led one legislative co-author to rush to drop his name from the bill late last week, and made the primary author gut the bill today. Jerry A. Johnson – who is a former professor and former President of Criswell College, a Baptist college in Dallas, Texas – said the bill is “specifically engineered to coerce Christian schools into either violating their constitutionally guaranteed freedom to believe and live out their faith or effectively becoming persona non grata in the state’s educational world”.
The statement, spearheaded by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, called on supporters of the Equity in Higher Education Act (SB 1146) to immediately withdraw their support of the bill, with the commitment to disavow similar intrusions in the future. Traditionally, California’s religious schools have received a religious exemption from non-discrimination laws.
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Most schools did not oppose the disclosure of any Title IX exemptions they held. Students, college leaders, religious freedom coalitions, and their allies have hammered the bill all summer, highlighting that “All Cal Grant recipients are low-income, and 75% of Cal Grant recipients at religious colleges are minorities”. The campaign to force a radical “gender ideology” and sexual immorality on religious colleges could shove them into second-class status. The ruling was a crack in the dam, and Congress followed suit with a more liberal expansion of Title IX a few years later, which would have required Grove City to comply with Title IX on an institution-wide basis. Earlier this year, the administration sent a directive on the anti-discrimination policy’s applications to transgender students and 11 states sued in response.