September 22 (CNNBreakingNews.net) — An LGBT student group has agreed to stop forcing Yeshiva University to do so recognize it officially, while the Jewish school in New York City appeals against a judge’s order calling on them to do so — an action that, according to the institution, would violate their religious values.
Yeshiva stopped all student club activities last week after the US Supreme Court refused to allow New York Block Judge Lynn Kotler’s June decision that the university must recognize the Y.U. Pride Alliance. Read more
Y.U. Pride Alliance said it had made the “painful and difficult decision” to agree to uphold the judge’s order The Yeshiva is following her appeals because she did not want the school to “punish” other students.
“At the same time, we will continue our lawsuit before the New York courts of appeal and our fight to end the YU. Our To violate civil rights and respect our equal dignity as Yeshiva students,” the club said.
Yeshiva said on Thursday she agreed to stay.
The university appeals against Kotler’s statement that it is subject to an urban anti-discrimination law. The dispute depends in part on whether Yeshiva is a “religious company” and is therefore exempt from New York City Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination by a location or provider of public accommodation based on sexual orientation, religion, race, gender, age, national origin, and several other factors.
The Supreme Court, with four of its six conservative judges, rejected in a 5-4 decision on September 14. To put Kotler’s order on hold and say the school can ask the New York courts to expedite their appeal and seek relief from them. read more
Yeshiva’s lawyers from conservative legal group Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said the club’s decision would allow her to To pursue appeals “without being forced to violate their religious identity.”
Hanan Eisenman, a Yeshiva spokesperson, said the university is now planning to resume club activities following the upcoming Jewish holidays, when students returned to campus and sent club lawyers a signed agreement to suspend Kotler’s order.
The YU Pride Alliance was unofficially formed in 2018, but Yeshiva decided that granting official status was “incompatible with Torah values of the school and the religious environment it wants to preserve.”
The modern Orthodox Jewish University based in Manhattan has around 6,000 undergraduate students and graduate programs