Conservative Group Sues University at Buffalo for Blocking Financial Account

Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have filed a motion asking a federal judge to stop the University at Buffalo from blocking a conservative group from accessing $6,000 in funding. 

The non-profit legal group filed a lawsuit last June on behalf of University at Buffalo’s Young Americans for Freedom after university officials and the Student Association de-recognized the conservative student group and barred it from receiving the same benefits as other student groups. 

According to the lawsuit, Young Americans for Freedom hosted conservative commentator, Michael Knowles, last March.

A week before his scheduled appearance at the university, Knowles made comments calling for “transgenderism” to be “eradicated from public life entirely.” 

Some students demanded UB cancel the event for Knowles due to “hate speech,” Buffalo News reports.

Ahead of Knowles’ appearance, the school released a statement saying, “As a public university, UB must uphold the principles of the First Amendment and cannot disallow student groups from inviting controversial speakers to campus, even if the views of the speaker, or content of the speech, is hurtful or demeaning.”

Knowles still made a speech for the Young Americans for Freedom, a chapter of the national organization of Young America’s Foundation, however several hundred

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