The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request from the Biden Administration that would have required the enforcement of
new Title IX regulations released in April of this year.
The rule expands the definition of “sex” in Title IX’s language to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any educational program or institution that receives federal funds.
Opponents of the new rule, including the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission,
argued that the rule would remove protections women have previously enjoyed from Title IX by allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports and by prohibiting sex-segregated spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms.
“To threaten the loss of funding for a school’s refusal to acquiesce to the redefinition of sex and gender is the height of arrogance by the Department of Education,” said the ERLC’s Brent Leatherwood.
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The University of California at Los Angeles blocked Jewish students from portions of campus when protests erupted in response to the Israel-Hamas War, a district judge has ruled, citing their faith as the sole factor.
“Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,” U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi said.
UCLA didn’t dispute the incident, Scarsi wrote in his injunction, but rather claimed no responsibility to protect the religious freedom of the plaintiffs because the exclusion was engineered by third-party protesters.
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Student ministry leaders Shane Pruitt has some questions for parents and church leaders as we start a new school year. Here’s one:
“What would it look like this school year if we were so laser-focused on the Great Commission that we refused to be distracted or discouraged by ineffective busyness and unnecessary drama?”
Read the full piece at Baptist Press.
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