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40 W. St. U. L. Rev. 105 (2012-2013)
The University Marketplace of Ideas under Threat: Why Religious Student Groups on California's Public University Campuses Need to Follow the Rules

handle is hein.journals/wsulr40 and id is 109 raw text is: The University Marketplace of Ideas Under Threat: Why Religious Student Groups on California's Public University Campuses Need to Follow the Rules INTRODUCTION .................................................. 105 I. THE LECTURE OF THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE ..................... 106 A. Criminal Charges, Jury Trial, and Conviction of Members of the Irvine 11 .......................................... 107 B. Was the Planned Disruption of Oren's Lecture an Isolated Incident? .... ....................................... 108 C. Was the Arrest of the Irvine 11 and the Criminal Convictions of Ten of its Members a Violation of the First Amendment Right to Free Speech? ........................................ 109 D. In re Kay and Cal. Penal Code Section 403 .................. 110 1. Nature of the Assembly ............................. 111 2. Knowing Violation of the Custom, Usage, or Rule of the Meeting ......................................... 111 3. Significant Disruption ............................... 113 E. Campus Free Speech Under Threat... ..................... 113 II. CHRISTIAN FRATERNITIES, CHRISTIAN SORORITIES, AND UNIVERSITY NONDISCRIMINATION POLICIES .. ............................... 114 A. The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.................................. 116 B. The End of a Legal Crusade? ............................ 117 C. Alpha Delta Chi: An Epilogue to Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. ........................................... 117 D. Why the Alpha Delta Chi and Christian Legal Society Decisions Further Good Public Policy .... ........................ 118 CONCLUSION............................................................... 120 INTRODUCTION Religious student groups contribute to the diverse landscape of university campuses.' However, lately, their contributions have been marked by controversy. Muslim student groups' role in interrupting lectures given by high profile, pro-Israel public figures can be hailed as courageous displays of civil disobedience, but also condemned as unlawful disruptions intended to silence alternative viewpoints. 1. This article focuses on Muslim and Christian student groups in particular because they recently have been the most controversial.

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