Note this is NOT tagged as a post on education.

Made-up shit of note:

Calvary and other religious schools contend that UC is engaging in "viewpoint discrimination."

What is that? And why do I get the feeling I'd get laughed out of court...or fined for contempt of court...if I filed so weak a case based on race discrimination (which we all admit still exists)? 

Rights Clash in Bias Suit Against UC

...At issue is UC's entrance requirement that most students pass a series of approved courses in such areas as English, math and science, in addition to obtaining a certain level of grades in those classes and scores on standardized tests.

For this school year, UC officials said, about 7,000 courses — in core subjects as well as electives — were submitted for approval. Of those, about 35% were turned down, a higher percentage than in years past, partly because of confusion at many high schools over a new UC requirement in the performing and visual arts, said Susan Wilbur, UC admissions director.

Oh, visual arts...viewpoint...I get it!

No?

In recent years, UC also has rejected biology and physics courses submitted by several schools — although not Calvary — that relied on textbooks from two leading conservative Christian publishers, Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Book.

...which, by the way, says things like

From the introduction to a 10th-grade biology textbook published by the Bob Jones University Press: "Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant word of God ... this book is not for them." And "if the conclusions contradict the word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many scientific facts may appear to back them."

You absolutely cannot give credit for a science course that teaches you to ignore the physical facts at hand.

It's not like UC rejects courses or applicants from the very schools claiming "viewpoint discrimination."

"The idea that the university wants to exclude students from religious schools is just not true," said UC counsel Christopher M. Patti. "It accepts hundreds if not thousands of students from these schools every year and values the diversity of views these students bring to its campuses."

In the last four years, for instance, UC has admitted 24 of 32 applicants from Calvary Chapel's Murrieta school, Patti said. The university also has certified 43 of the school's courses under UC's college preparatory guidelines, he said.

"We're only setting preparatory requirements for our own admission purposes," Patti said. "The religious schools can continue to be as religious as they like, but the university has a right to set its admission standards."

And it's not like UC didn't try to work it out with them, either.

UC officials said university approval often involves discussion with high schools, with proposed courses revised and resubmitted, sometimes several times. But in this case, the sides were unable to reach agreement.

But the religious schools don't WANT to work it out.

"This is potentially an extremely important case," said John C. Green, senior fellow in religion and politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C. "It gets at the issue of admissions criteria for public universities, but has ramifications beyond that, and not just for conservative Christians." Advocates of home-schooling and other alternative forms of education, he said, also are likely to watch it closely.

Every technology company (biotech firms in particular), every medical school and hospital, every graduate school in the country should be filing "Friend of Court" briefs on this, because they WILL be pushing this to the Supreme Court...it's part of the reason they added two sophomores to as plaintiffs.

Bah.