The highest American jurisdiction was seized by a Jewish university in New York which refuses to give the status of student association to a group of young homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender.
Le Monde with AFP
The US Supreme Court granted, Friday, September 9, a stage victory at the Jewish University Yeshiva by suspending the decision of a New York judge who had granted to an LGBTQ group (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, transgender and queers) Student association status.
As it is essential for the decisions taken in emergency, the highest jurisdiction in the United States – which has six in nine conservative magistrates – has not motivated its decision, and did not specify which magistrates support it . This suspension was made pending a more excavated examination of the file.
The appeal filed by the New York Yeshiva University intervened after a judge ordered the latter to register the student club Yeshiva University Pride Alliance at the start of the 2022 school year, in order to open access to some Rooms and services.
“As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply with this order because he violates his sincere religious convictions over the values of the Torah to transmit to students”, she pleaded in her appeal.
The Yeshiva uiversity offers numerous non -religious lessons and welcomes non -Jewish students, had retorted the promoters of the association. “It cannot deny some students access to non-religious resources because of their sexual orientation,” they argued.
several decisions in favor of religious
The Yeshiva University, founded at the end of the 19th century th century “to promote the study of the Talmud”, welcomes around 5,000 students and provides diplomas in matters as varied as biology , psychology or accounting.
In 2018, LGBTQ students trained the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance group, and sought to become an association approved by the establishment in order to be able, among other things, organize conferences or meetings.
This confrontation is part of a broad debate in the United States on the balance between respect for religious freedoms and the principles of non-discrimination. The Supreme Court, deeply altered by former President Donald Trump, has rendered several decisions in favor of the religious in recent months.
On May 24, the Supreme Court thus returned to the said Roe vs Wade judgment who, since 1973, granted the Americans by right to abort throughout the country. In June, she canceled a Maine program prohibiting the state funds to be spent in religious schools, and decided that a football coach of a Washington state high school had the right to pray on the field after the matches.