"In God we Trust" may be printed on our currency and the Ten Commandments may be plastered into the artwork adorning the Supreme Court building, but every year America moves further from its Judeo-Christian foundation. While some citizens applaud America's hyper-secularization, the Supreme Court is willing to go so far as to purge America's legal system of quality jurisprudence in order to achieve its questionable agenda. The Court's wayward perspective manifested itself in the June 28 ruling against the Christian Legal Society, in which the Supreme Court's decision created a precedent for tyranny of the majority on college campuses.
Christian Legal Society (CLS) vs. Martinez embodies a unique social and legal phenomenon. The case threatens the rights of all student groups to function on college campuses, and yet the decision created little excitement within mass culture. That apathy is probably because CLS does not elicit much sympathy from those within academic and elite circles; and because, on its surface, the decision seems benign. The Supreme Court ruled, in a four to three split, that Hastings College of the Law could deny CLS recognition as an official student organization due to the group's Statement of Faith. That statement requires leadership to affirm belief in "One God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit . . . The Bible as the inspired Word of God. " The Statement of Faith also prohibits the organization's leadership from engaging in any sexual activity outside the bounds of traditional marriage.
Hastings argued that the CLS's Statement of Faith violated the school's anti-discriminatory "all-comers" policy. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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