Court Rejects Suit Challenging Title IX Exemptions

A federal district court docket on Thursday rejected a match demanding the correct of the Schooling Office to grant exemptions, as needed by federal legislation, to some religious schools from selected provisions of Title IX of the Schooling Amendments of 1972.

A group of LGBTQ learners and former students at religious schools sued in excess of the exemption. The college students stated they were being expelled or normally discriminated against by the schools.

Less than Title IX, if a college is “controlled by a religious organization” with “religious tenets” inconsistent with the software of Title IX, the Instruction Division may perhaps grant the exemption.

Decide Ann Aiken did not dispute that religious schools with the exemption can and do discriminate in opposition to LGBTQ college students.

Having said that, she reported, “Exempting religiously managed instructional establishments from Title IX—and only to the extent that a specific application of Title IX would not be constant with a specific tenet of the controlling religious organization—is substantially connected to the government’s aim of accommodating religious physical exercise.”