The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must recognize a Christian fraternity that has waged a legal fight challenging the school's nondiscrimination policy. Alpha Iota Omega was stripped of its status as an official campus group because the fraternity wont [sic] accept nonbelievers or gay students. The university revoked the recognition after fraternity members refused to sign the school's nondiscrimination policy. The three-member fraternity sued last year, saying UNC-CH had violated their constitutional rights to free speech, free assembly and free exercise of religion. Recognition gives the fraternity access to student funds and university facilities. [Emphasis added]
[Bottom line: as long as an invisible monster that lives in the sky tells you what to do, you can discriminate against anyone you like and demand other people's money to facilitate your doing so. If you don't have the invisible monster part you have to either discriminate without public funds or be inclusive with public funds, not both.]
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