Liberals have looked on aghast at the Supreme Court's expansion of Constitutional rights this term—freer political speech, another watershed gun case. There's a certain unfortunate consistency, then, in the fact that one decision liberals are applauding restricts religious and other freedoms of expression.

In 2004, Hastings College of the Law, part of the University of California public system, refused to officially recognize the Christian Legal Society, or CLS, which meant the student group was denied the benefits offered to their peers like the use of school buildings for meetings, email lists and funding from mandatory student-activity fees. Dean Leo Martinez interpreted the school's nondiscrimination policy to mean that any student group had to accept all comers, even if they disagreed with its core beliefs.

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