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Greg Baylor: First- and second-class religious colleges?

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney Gregory S. Baylor writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Late last month, a state court of appeals held that North Carolina violated the state and federal constitutions by delegating the power to enforce state criminal law to Davidson College because Davidson has a connection to the Presbyterian Church (USA) . . . [The court] rather plainly encouraged the state supreme court to revisit controlling precedent and divide religious colleges into two categories ? 'religiously affiliated' ones (on whom the state could constitutionally confer benefits) and 'pervasively sectarian' ones (on whom the state could not). Davidson presumably would fall into the first category, whereas more Christ-centered institutions would fall into the second . . . However, differentiating among religious entities based upon their degree of religiosity is a dangerous business."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).