McDonnell signs bill on student groups

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McDonnell signs bill on student groups

Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 8:04 pm, Thu Mar 28, 2013.

McDonnell signs bill on student groups From staff reports Richmond Times-Dispatch

Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed legislation that prohibits public colleges from requiring student groups to adhere to so-called “all-comers” policies.

The Student Group Protection Act is designed to ensure freedom of association on campuses, said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mark D. Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg.

The new law gives religious or political student organizations at public institutions the right to define their doctrines. To the extent allowed by law, they also can limit membership to students committed to their missions.
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The ACLU said the legislation was an effort to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a university’s right to require student organizations to abide by nondiscrimination policies. The ruling came in a challenge by a conservative Christian group in California that excluded gay and lesbian students.

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1. What a surprise

A Republican that supports bigotry and racism...and of course the Ken doll signed off on it at the very last moment like the coward he has always been while governor.

Wonder what Virginia is going to do when a neo-Nazi group decides it wants to form an organization on a public college campus?

Virginia, not only for lovers but for racists and bigots, too!!!

[swimboy]

2. And they say he demurred on his plans for 2016

how coy . . .

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