The Justice Department moved to intervene in a lawsuit brought by two Christian students in Northern Virginia who alleged their constitutional rights were violated when they were punished after speaking out against a female student’s access to a boys’ locker room.
“Discrimination on the basis of religion is abhorrent to a free society,” DOJ said in its memorandum supporting a motion to intervene, filed Monday with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Justice Department alleged the Loudoun County School Board applied a policy to the two male Christian students, which requires students and faculty “to ...