Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize, for now, an LGBTQ student group.
In an email to students, university officials on Friday said that it"hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom."
The undergraduate group describes itself as"a supportive space for all students, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, to feel respected, visible, and represented."By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the justices lifted a temporary hold on a court order that requires Yeshiva University to recognize the group, even as a legal fight continues in New York courts.
"Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination," he said."The Supreme Court has laid out the roadmap for us to find expedited relief and we will follow their instructions."Nevertheless, a lawyer for the students said the university's action Friday was divisive and"shameful." The university's tactic, she said,"is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi, closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate."
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