Yeshiva University will allow an LGBTQ student group on its campus in the midst of a law suit challenging the orthodox Jewish school’s religious status.
A new LGBTQ group, Kol Israel Areivim Club, has been approved, the university said in a press conference Monday. It isn’t intended as an approval of the LGBTQ lifestyle, but instead to provide students with a forum to support each other and share their experiences, said Becket Fund for Religious Liberty senior counsel Eric Baxter, who represents the university.
The YU Pride Alliance—the group that sued for recognition—called the move a “desperate stunt” intended to ...
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