"Your group does not allow full participation 'without regard to … religion … ' as mandated by our Application for Official University Recognition," Jonathan E. Curtis, UNC-Chapel Hill's assistant director for student activities and organizations wrote to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in a December 10 letter. "Consequently I am writing to notify you that you will need to modify the wording of your charter, or I will have no choice but to revoke your University recognition." Curtis gave the group until January 31 to do so, and reportedly gave the same ultimatum to two other Christian groups on campus
"How can we ensure the group has a Christian mission without some assurance the leaders are Christian?" said David French, attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which filed the lawsuit (with support from the ...
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