Do Miss America said:
So then they get the dues a they lose an asshole. So what?
Well, if I must spell out the punchline in plain detail...Mr. Ultra-Fundamentalist would claim that he's being discriminated against because of his religiously-motivated views on homosexuality. He'd probably be right, but it'd be rather dumb to force the BGLTS club to accept him if their charter states that their purpose is to help gay people accept their sexuality.
No one here has presented a real reason as to why these men have a real case.
Besides historical precedent and analogies, you mean?
This thread is no longer just about those three guys, who probably should have just signed the nondiscrimination pact and postponed the day of reckoning. It's about college groups and their ability to govern themselves.
Let's just say for argument sake someone did want to inflitrate their little club and they did have the power to discriminate based on whatever how would they know? How would they know? Like someone said, there are no religion IDs that people carry around.
So according to standard nondiscrimination policies, the BLGTS club might be free to dismiss a nonreligious member who wanted to turn the group into a therapy group for changing sexual orientation, but they would not be able to dismiss a member who wanted to do the same if he declared that he was religiously motivated. A rather absurd state of affairs.
Plus everyone's forgetting that frats and clubs like that have rush and they can eliminate whoever they want.
Well, the reason I brought up general frats in the first place is not because they discriminate during rush; it was because they
categorically discriminate on the basis of gender. Ultimately, colleges allow them to stay because similar organizations exist for women. In a similar manner, if a gay Christian wants to join a Christian organization, but the evangelical group isn't tolerant of homosexuality, he or she can join a more liberal group or charter one.
The point is, these antidiscrmination statues cut both ways and have the power to undermine college organizations' reason for existing.