LTE published by GF member

**UPDATE: Tuesday's Alligator followed this up with front-page coverage and an op-ed. Thanks, Alligator staff, for following an important story that has large ramifications for how we deal with church-state issues.**

There was a LTE published in Thursday's Alligator about the recent lawsuit filed by a religious organization on campus against the university. Read it here, or see the full-text below:

Letter to the Editor
Religious frat lawsuit not pious

By S. DANIEL MORGAN
7LS

Beta Upsilon Chi - "Brothers Under Christ" - has sued UF with the aid of an entity from the Christian Legal Society.

Religious student organizations should play by the rules like everyone else. If you want to get official status and/or university money, you have to maintain the non-discrimination policy. The point of sponsoring and funding these groups is to promote the university body as a whole and to offer opportunities for growth and learning to everyone equally. Religious groups are free (constitutionally) to discriminate and exclude whomever they want, just not facilitated by the university's resources. It's interesting to me how the ideal of "religious freedom" has come to be equated with entitlement.

While Scripture is replete with words admonishing believers to use persecution and unfair treatment as a testimony to their moral rectitude, believers today clamor loudly for special privileges. Paul scolded the Corinthians saying, "The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?" (1 Cor. 6:7 NIV) and Jesus said, "And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well." (Matt. 5:40, NIV). How different religious ideals seem from their practice in reality.

See more on the story here, here and here.
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