InterVarsity Reacts to Court Decision

By Carl • Sep 1st, 2010 • Category: Faith Report

MADISON, Wisc. (AP) _ The president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA says leaders of its 860 campus chapters must still be Christians and live according to biblical standards.

Alec Hill says that won’t change, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling against the Christian Legal Society. The justices ruled that a law school in San Francisco can deny recognition to a CLS chapter that won’t let non-Christians or gays become leaders, even though any student can join.

Hill says InterVarsity Christian Fellowship welcomes students regardless of their faith. But if those students were to elect a non-Christian chapter leader, Hill says InterVarsity would have to suspend its affiliation with that chapter.

He hopes campus recognition won’t be an issue this school year, so that IVCF can extend the same welcome as other student groups to incoming freshmen.

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