Church and state
Ginny Robinson, in "Majority rules" (Sept. 20), successfully turned a rather common-sense Supreme Court case into a horror story complete with the extermination of Christianity and the arrival of the newest contracted independent organization on Grounds: "Hoo's in the Mob." The case in question, Hastings v. Martinez, concerns the nondiscrimination policy for student organizations at Hastings College of Law. From Robinson's account, it seems as though a student organization at Hastings was either an official club or an underground gang. That is simply not the case. At Hastings, student groups may either be a Registered Student Organization (RSO), thereby gaining school funding, or be unregistered and exist just fine, as do fraternities and special-interest groups. In order to be an RSO however, the group cannot discriminate against one's religion, sexual orientation, etc. The question: Can the Christian Legal Society (CSL) still discriminate on those grounds and become an RSO? The answer from the Supreme Court: No.