Ninth Circuit upholds universitiy policy against student group religious discrimination

[JURIST] A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that San Diego State University (SDSU) [academic website] can deny funding and status as a student organization to two Christian groups that require members be of the same religion. A panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] held that the SDSU nondiscrimination policy [student organizations handbook, PDF] prohibiting all student organizations from discriminating on the basis of "race, sex, color, age, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual…