It’s easy to find hot religion buttons on campuses, writes veteran religion reporter Terry Mattingly. Clashes about student rights, politics or sex often reveal disagreements about religion. As a result, “71 percent of America’s campuses try to enforce codes that in some way clash with the First Amendment.”
For example, Mattingly describes one campus clash that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mattingly says the Court “ruled that the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco could require its Christian Legal Society chapter to use an ‘all comers’ policy for members and leaders or lose its status as a campus organization. The case pivoted on the group’s affirmation that sex outside of marriage–the union of husband and wife–is sinful.”
