Can you afford to defend your beliefs in court?

A Christian, Jewish or Muslim organization ought to be able to select its own members, but they may have to defend themselves. I think under President Obama we'll see much more testing of Christian groups who don't buy into the party sex line.

Alpha Delta Chi, a Christian sorority with 14 active chapters nationwide, is straightforward about its membership requirements: churchgoing Christians only; no smoking or illegal drugs; no premarital sex; and please, no drinking to the point that it would reflect poorly on Christianity. A small committee works with members who break the rules, said [a someone who asked me in 2021 to remove her name]  at Georgia Tech, where a chapter began five years ago. But the group says it isn't just about rules, it's about young women trying to live like Christ. "All the girls are in Bible studies. We also do sisterhood retreats and outreach," she said. Many campuses welcome the combination of old-time religion with Greek-letter social groups, but others haven't. At the University of Florida, Beta Upsilon Chi filed a federal discrimination suit last year after administrators refused to officially recognize the fraternity because it required members to be Christians. The school considered the requirement discriminatory, and the fraternity said it was wrongly deprived of meeting space and the ability to recruit on campus. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the school to recognize the group as a fraternity while the lawsuit winds its way through the legal system, and Beta Upsilon Chi has asked the court to make that recognition permanent. An attorney for the Christian Legal Society, Timothy F. Tracey, said Christian Greek-letter groups have been opening on the nation's campuses more frequently since the mid-1990s, and such court fights have been rare. Link "Religion and Greek Life"