The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court order that would have required Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBT club as an official campus organization in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor .
Sotomayor’s order indicated that the high court would have more to say on the matter at some point in the future but that for now, the school may continue to deny recognition of the group. Her response comes just days after the university asked the Supreme Court to block the lower court order that required the school to recognize the club, called the Pride Alliance, citing sincerely held religious beliefs.
Yeshiva University, a college established in 1886 that is considered one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish universities in the nation, filed the emergency request to the high court on Aug. 29, calling a judge’s June decision in the New York Supreme Court First Judicial District an “unprecedented intrusion” into the university’s sincere religious beliefs.
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