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Federal judge holds @uiowa officials personally liable for discriminating against evangelical student group washex.am/2ncTCet
Last July, the university kicked the interdenominational evangelical InterVarsity student group off campus for requiring its leaders to be Christian, claiming this violated the school's nondiscrimination policy.
The school then applied the same penalty to a dozen other student religious organizations with a similar requirement that leaders reflect the faith of the group but did not punish any secular organization with a mandate that leaders share the group's identity.
But Friday, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Marie Rose ruled the school was discriminating against the religious groups and the violation was so flagrant that school officials responsible for it will have to pay @intervarsityusa for $ it lost in a legal battle to stay on campus.
The vice president and several other officers have been found liable, and university president Bruce Harreld may also have to pay.
