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Christian club rejects University of Iowa’s mandate to accept LGBT leaders

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A Christian student organization at the University of Iowa says it has not and will not surrender to the administration’s demands that it allow openly-homosexual men to run for leadership positions. Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) holds weekly meetings, group discussions, and Bible studies for the purpose of strengthening members’ faith and helping them apply it in the business world. For months, it has been locked in a legal battle with the administration for rejecting Marcus Miller’s application for a leadership position. BLinC rejected Miller, a gay activist because he refused to agree to the club’s Statement of Faith that called for sexual chastity outside of natural marriage. Despite the fact that multiple campus organizations with a wide range of perspectives require members to accept their own sets of beliefs and behavioral standards (including Miller’s own gay “religious” student group Love Works), the school revoked Blinc's status as a registered student group, bloc

Christian student group sues the University of Iowa after they were kicked off campus for refusing to let a gay student become their vice-president

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Marcus Miller deceived by the sin of homosexuality lashes out Student group Business Leaders in Christ are suing the University of Iowa after they were de-registered A gay member of the group, Marcus Miller , brought a complaint to the university after he was blocked from becoming their vice-president The group says it will not allow gay students to be leaders, as they must make a statement rejecting homosexuality Miller has since started his own student group , Love Works, which advocates for LGBTQ issue The University of Iowa is caught up in a legal fight with a conservative Christian student group that denied a leadership position to a student who is gay. The case pits a university policy barring discrimination based on sexual orientation against the religious beliefs of a 10-member group called Business Leaders in Christ. The group sued after the state's flagship university in Iowa City revoked its campus registration in November. The group says its membership is open