Coalition letter on HEA reauthorization religious exemptions

Fifty civil rights, faith, religious freedom, LGBTQ, and reproductive rights organizations joined this letter to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, expressing strong opposition to provisions in the Higher Education Act reauthorization bill that would allow the use of religion to discriminate. These provisions are designed to permit religious student groups and religiously affiliated colleges to disregard the rules, including bars on discrimination, all other schools and groups must follow. These broad, unwarranted, and unfair exemptions from laws and policies would result in taxpayer-funded discrimination.