Sat Jun 24, 2023 – 5:36 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the Missouri-based College of the Ozarks’ case against the Biden administration imposing a slate of new requirements on the Christian school to recognize and accommodate the “gender identity” of gender-dysphoric students, although attorneys representing the school remain hopeful the nation’s highest court will get to its underlying constitutional questions.
One of President Joe Biden’s earliest acts was signing an executive order declaring the “policy of my Administration to prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, and to fully enforce Title VII and other laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.” It cites the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock decision claiming that federal law’s prohibition on discrimination “because of … sex” extends to “discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.”
In April 2021, the College of the Ozarks filed a lawsuit to prevent itself from being forced to change its longstanding policy of separating male and female students in intimate facilities such as dormitories, arguing that Biden’s executive order contradicts the long-settled understanding
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