Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.

I'm your host John D'Alene.

It is April 5th, 2021.

And today we have an important episode for you all.

And I'm going to read a little bit from the description.

Since Title IX passed in 1972 to prevent sex discrimination under any education program

receiving federal financial assistance, the religious exemption clause has gone virtually

unchallenged.

For decades, the Department of Education has granted Title IX exceptions, allowing dozens

of religious colleges like Brigham Young University, B.O. U.I. to Ho and Hawaii, and others

like it, including Liberty University, etc. to discriminate based on sex, gender identity,

and sexual orientation, even though either these universities or students from these universities

receive millions of taxpayer dollars every single year.

Today we are going to be joined by Attorney Paul Southwick, Chandler Horning, a former student

of Brigham Young University, Idaho, I believe, and Luke Wilson from Liberty University, and

we are going to be talking today about a groundbreaking class action lawsuit filed against

the U.S. Department of Education.

Chandler and Luke are among 33 former and current students from different federally funded

religious colleges who have been harmed by these discriminatory practices.

The lawsuit argues that the Title IX religious exemptions, as applied to sexual and gender

minority students, is unconstitutional, and that the Department must enforce the protections

of Title IX at all taxpayer-funded educational institutions, including those institutions

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