So You Want To Know What's Wrong With Religion? (9)

Caught this post from The Friendly Atheist:  "Should an Iowa College Grant Official Recognition to an Anti-Gay Christian Club?"  Apparently a Christian Business Group at a college wants to be able to discriminate against other students and still gain all the benefits of being a recognized student organization.  Yes, the usual "My religious rights are sacrosanct, your civil rights don't mean crap!" argument.

The group, Business Leaders in Christ, lost their affiliation and is suing to get it back. The school dropped them because of their refusing to adhere to the school non-discrimination policies.  They claim they weren't discriminating against another student because he was gay, but because he refused to sign their Statement of Faith, which includes sexual immorality clause. 

"The group disagrees and says Miller was rejected from leadership, not because he was gay, but because he didn’t agree that same-sex relationships were sinful."

So being Gay is OK, as long as you recognize that it's a sin?  How utterly ridiculous!  It's just like little kennie ham's arguments that being gay isn't an issue as long as you don't act on those 'sinful' impulses. It's pretty simple., the group discriminates, the school said that's against policy and dropped their affiliation.  Like so many theists seem to think that if it's done in the name of religion, it's not really discrimination -- which is crap!

This is simply another example of someone trying to use their religious beliefs to deny rights to other people.  I hope the ruling goes against this group, but in today's courts you never know.   This Christian group is asking for special rights, over and above everyone else.  Unlike Kentucky, maybe Iowa will remember a little thing called the US Constitution.