A federal judge is considering whether to overturn a Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges that participate in a state program that allows high school students to take college courses for credit.
The state argued that the 2023 law rightly protects high school students who are not Christian, straight, and cisgender—those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
The law targets the state’s only two conservative Christian colleges that require students to sign statements of faith—Crown College in St. Bonifacius and the University of Northwestern in Roseville. A group of parents and high schoolers who are earning college credits at those institutions, or would like to, are suing to overturn the law, saying it violates their religious freedom under the First Amendment to choose schools with campus atmospheres that that reflect their values.
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