Christian Law Student Group Denied Recognition Appeals for Justice
By Jim Brown
July 29, 2005

(AgapePress) - The Christian Legal Society chapter at Southern Illinois University Law School is asking a federal court to order the law school to reinstate the evangelical group as an official student organization.

CLS filed suit in April, alleging the law school violated its First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by revoking the organization's registered status. SIU dropped its recognition of CLS after a homosexual student complained to law school officials about the chapter's requirement that its members and leaders be Christians.

CLS is now appealing their case to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. M. Casey Mattox, litigation counsel for the CLS's Center for Law & Religious Freedom, is one of the attorneys representing the group. He says SIU is erroneously claiming the chapter violates the school's affirmative action policy.

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