Fifteen states, led by their attorneys general, are voicing support for a Christian club at the University of Iowa (UIowa) that was denied funding because it wants to only have Christian students as leaders.
At the center of the issue is InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a registered student organization at UIowa. In 2018, InterVarsity was was told by UIowa that its requirement that leaders must share the Christian faith went against the university’s anti-discrimination policy. As a result, InterVarsity was de-registered, meaning that it would no longer receive funds from the university’s mandatory fees paid by all students, or have a reserved meeting place on campus. Meanwhile, other secular student groups requiring members to subscribe to their respective missions maintained their status during the same school year.
