Student Says a Christian Can’t Survive at Yale Law School

A third-year student at Yale Law School said he thought he could survive as a Christian and a person committed to constitutional freedoms at the school, but recent events showed him that he was mistaken.

Writing at The Federalist, Aaron Haviland explained how he and other conservatives became targets of a coordinated protest by liberal students. A few weeks ago, Haviland and some friends sent out an email on behalf of the school’s chapter of the Federalist Society announcing that an attorney from the Alliance Defending Freedom would be on campus to discuss the recent Supreme Court verdict in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The backlash surprised him and revealed the depth of the hostility conservatives face on campus.

The Alliance Defending Freedom has argued and won First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court, but this has not stopped the Southern Poverty Law Center from listing them as a hate group. News stories frequently mention this designation. In a recent Huffington Post article about Allison Jones Rushing’s confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4^thCircuit, the author lists her work with the Alliance Defending Freedom as one of the concerning aspects of her nomination. In the piece, the author’s only explanation of the Alliance Defending Freedom’s work was to mention the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group”…