From The New York Times-
The Moody Bible Institute in Chicago seems like the last place in which to expect a scandal over Title IX.
Moody
is one of the most conservative Christian colleges in the country, and
Title IX’s authority is diminished these days. Last year, the White
House rescinded the Obama administration’s stricter enforcement of the
federal law against sex discrimination in educational programs that
receive federal financial aid. Moreover, under President Trump, the
Justice Department seems disinclined to challenge conservative
Christians’ insistence that the First Amendment exempts their
institutions from the full force of anti-discrimination laws.
Yet
recent events at Moody show that religious freedom does more than
protect the dissenting views of minority groups — it encourages members
of those groups to fight vigorously among themselves. In January, a
former Moody communications instructor named Janay Garrick filed a suit
in Federal District Court. She accused Moody of “discrimination and
retaliation,” charging that the school fired her for such insubordinate
acts as helping female students file Title IX complaints about the
pastoral ministry program, which was then restricted to men and still
excludes women from some parts of the major. She also counseled lesbian
and transgender students and collected the testimonies of female
students who reported sexual assaults and harassment, according to court
documents. (Moody declined to comment.)
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