Con Rights and Libs Rosenberger v UVA Study Review Test.
Who: - CORRECT ANSWER Ronald Rosenberger, a member of a recognized organization of Christian students at the University of Virginia.
Rosenberger v UVA
515 US 819 (1995) - CORRECT ANSWER public funds and religion
What - CORRECT ANSWE...
Con Rights and Libs Rosenberger v UVA
Study Review Test.
Who: - CORRECT ANSWER Ronald Rosenberger, a member of a recognized organization of Christian
students at the University of Virginia.
Rosenberger v UVA
515 US 819 (1995) - CORRECT ANSWER public funds and religion
What - CORRECT ANSWER objected to a denial of student activity funds to support the printing of the
group's newspaper, Wide Awake: A Christian Perspective at the University of Virginia.
Why? - CORRECT ANSWER Other student groups received funding to support their publications, but the
university's rules prohibited support for religious activities.
Issue - CORRECT ANSWER Did the University of Virginia violate the First Amendment rights of its
Christian magazine staff by denying them the same funding resources that it made available to secular
student-run magazines?
Supreme court ruled: - CORRECT ANSWER in favor of Rosenberger.
Justice Kennedy, writing for the Court: - CORRECT ANSWER found the university's policies to be an
unconstitutional form of "viewpoint discrimination." He explained that "it does not violate the
Establishment Clause for a public university to grant access to its facilities on a religion-neutral basis to a
wide spectrum of student groups."
Belief of the court. - CORRECT ANSWER In order for the University to ban speech, the court ruled that
the university was required to scrutinize all student speech to ensure that it did not contain excessively
religious content.
It must promote all forms of speech equally.
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