Yale Law School's placement office discriminates against organizations that
discriminate on the basis of religion--which, in effect, means it discriminates against
religious organizations. I found this from an article by Michael McConnell,
"Religion and Civic Education: The New Establishmentarianism,"
Chicago-Kent Law Review,
75 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 453, 464 (2000):
A second recent episode involves the exclusion of the Christian Legal
Society from the services of the placement office at two prominent law
schools (Yale and Chicago). These schools prohibit the use of placement
services by employers that discriminate on a number of grounds,
including religion. Because Christian Legal Society does not hire staff
members or student interns who do not share the organization's religious
beliefs, it has been banned from recruiting on the campus of these
schools, along with racists and other discriminators.
It's interesting that while The Christian Legal Society's discrimination is only
theoretical (what atheist law student wants to go work for pennies for an organization
where everybody prays at lunch?), Yale's is actual and repeated. So why doesn't Yale
lose all its federal funding, like colleges that discriminate by race used to?
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