The About This Site section of the web page says: The Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Campus Resource Center is a department in Student and Campus Life, a
division of the Student Affairs Organization under the direction of Vice Chancellor
Winston Doby. The quoted material is the textual
On its face it looks like a pretty flagrant Establishment Clause violation,
but I'd need to know more about the structure of UCLA in order to be
sure. Rosenberger v. Virginia holds that not all speech that the state
funds is attributable to the state. The Establishment Clause isn't
violated
Title: Is UCLA violating the Establishment Clause?
This
isn't academic freedom, in my view. Rather, this is nearly the opposite
of academic freedom. The university is not just allowing teachers to teach what
they believe to be the best academic understanding of a subject. Instead the
I'm unaware of UCLA providing any preferential support for chaplains
or for religious groups (again, perhaps excepting hospital chaplains, but
I'm not even sure of that) that it doesn't provide to any other student
group or organization. I'm not even aware of any other public universities
While there have not been challenges to the best of my knowledge to college
chaplainries, there have been challenges to police and hospital
chaplaincies. By and large, if the chaplaincies are fundamentally
non-sectarian and non -coercive they are upheld. However, in these cases
there is a
