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OSU to reframe its nondiscrimination policy
Friday, October 01, 2004
Kathy Lynn Gray
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 
‘‘I believe I’ve made the best decision that represents the best interests of all our students."  
BILL HALL vice president for student affairs  

Ohio State University will allow student religious organizations to exclude people who don’t hold a given group’s religious beliefs.

The university will announce today it has revised its nondiscrimination policy, which had required student groups to allow anyone to join regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Religious organizations will be able to restrict membership according to "sincerely held religious beliefs," said Bill Hall, vice president for student affairs.

"It is one of the most-difficult decisions I had to make," he said. "I am personally and professionally committed to nondiscrimination in every aspect of university life."

Yet, Hall said, "I also respect those with sincere religious beliefs and their rights to organize in accordance with those beliefs."

The change means the Christian Legal Society, a small group associated with OSU’s law school, can exclude gays and non-Christians. The group had been fighting the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

Ohio State had required all organizations to adopt its nondiscrimination policy in order to receive funds from the school.

Hall’s decision runs counter to a recommendation by the Council on Student Affairs, which studied the nondiscrimination policy in the spring and recommended it remain unchanged.

"I believe I’ve made the best decision that represents the best interests of all our students," Hall said, noting that among the university’s 800 student organizations, 67 are religious.

He said he studied the issue for nearly a year and consulted with lawyers, religious leaders and the university community.

Hall began reviewing the policy after the Outlaws, a law-school organization that promotes gay legal issues, charged that the Christian Legal Society was breaking Ohio State’s nondiscrimination policy.


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