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Mary Margaret Olohan – June 10, 2021<\/p>\n
Following backlash, the Justice Department has edited a court filing to remove a comment indicating that it will \u201cvigorously\u201d defend religious rights.<\/p>\n
In the Tuesday court filing<\/a>, the Justice Department said that it will defend the religious exemption of Christian schools, a religious exemption included in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as it applies to \u201c\u2018sexual and gender minority students\u2019 attending private religious colleges and universities that receive federal funding,\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n The filing formerly mentioned that the Justice Department would \u201cvigorously\u201d defend religious rights \u2014 a comment that was taken out Wednesday following backlash against the Biden administration, the Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Biden administration\u2019s filing opposed a motion from several Christian schools to join the court case in order to protect their religious exemptions. The federal lawsuit involves a group of students who sued the government for giving funding to religious schools that the students say discriminate against LGBTQ persons.<\/p>\n The Justice Department instead inserted the word \u201cadequate\u201d multiple times and removed four instances of the phrase \u201cultimate objective,\u201d including part of a sentence saying that the Department of Education and Christian schools \u201cshare the same \u2018ultimate objective\u2019 \u2026 namely, to uphold the Religious Exemption as it is currently applied.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe welcome the Biden administration\u2019s commitment to the Title IX religious exemption, but we do believe that the Christian colleges and universities whose rights are at stake should have a representative at the table, and in the courtroom, for these important conversations,\u201d Council for Christian Colleges & Universities president Shirley Hoogstra said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n CCCU filed a motion<\/a> to be an official participant in the case \u201cso it can defend Title IX\u2019s religious protections\u201d in May.<\/p>\n Critics claimed that the move contradicts<\/a> the Biden administration\u2019s public statements on discrimination against LGBTQ persons. The Biden administration said in a March memo from the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division that \u201c[a]ll persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation,\u201d according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.wnd.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary Margaret Olohan – June 10, 2021 Following backlash, the Justice Department has edited a court filing to remove a comment indicating that it will \u201cvigorously\u201d defend religious rights. 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