NEW YORK — Pro-life group Students for Life filed a suit Jan. 25 against Queens College in New York City alleging the school and its academic system, The City University of New York (CUNY), did not provide the group with benefits equal to what other student groups on campus had been given.
Casey Mattox, senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom at Alliance Defending Freedom, who filed the suit on behalf of the group, said the college “simply denied the group (from meeting on campus) and refused requests to explain the decision.”
The suit reads, “Queens College affords unbridled discretion to those officials and students responsible for deciding which groups to approve, allowing defendants to deny this critical status to any group because defendants object to the group’s views,” according to The Christian Post.
Mattox said, “Public universities are supposed to provide a marketplace of ideas but that market can’t function properly if the heavy hand of government promotes some views over others.
“Yet that is precisely what Queens College has done. … The college’s unconstitutional actions treat these pro-life students as second-class, denying them meeting space, funding and other benefits necessary to form a club and fully participate on campus.”
The Post reported that Maria Matteo, spokesperson for Queens College, said neither Queens College nor CUNY have “received notice of litigation relating to this matter.” (TAB)
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