Unstuck at Rutgers

National | Officials at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have seen the light: Constitutional rights trump political correctness. | Edward E. Plowman

Officials at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have seen the light: Constitutional rights trump political correctness. But it took a civil-rights lawsuit by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to convince them.

In an out-of-court settlement announced last week, the officials in effect acknowledged they had been wrong last September in barring the campus IVCF chapter from access to university facilities and student-activity funding. They had demanded that IVCF comply with the school's anti-discriminatory policy by lifting its requirement that chapter officers be Christians who subscribe to a statement of faith. The Rutgers policy, similar to those of many schools, says "membership, benefits, and the election of officers" cannot be biased on the basis of race, sex, handicap, age, sexual orientation, or political and religious affiliation.

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