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Casey Mattox: The story behind Widmar v. Vincent, Part I

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney [Casey Mattox] writing at speakupmovement.org/university: "If you are ? or have been in the past 30 years ? part of a religious student group on a public university campus (or for that matter on a high school campus), you owe that privilege to the decision of a group of college students in Kansas City in 1977. At a time when courts were wrestling ? in some cases unfavorably ? with the question of whether the Establishment Clause required public universities to exclude religious student groups from campus, Cornerstone at the University of Missouri-Kansas City decided to defend their (and your) rights in court. The result was the Supreme Court?s 1981 decision in Widmar v. Vincent, holding that the First Amendment prevented public universities from discriminating against religious student groups."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).