Another university (see this earlier post) has formally distanced itself from an earlier request for a devout exemption under Title IX. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Loyola University of novel Orleans has written to the Department of Education to ensure that the agency no longer considers it among the institutions that have historically or recently exercised their statutory right to opt out of Title IX provisions that clash with devout tenets.
In Loyola's exemption request,which it filed in 1986, the institution affirmed that regulatory obligations to include "termination of pregnancy or recovery therefrom" in its student health insurance plans conflicted with its Catholic tenets opposed to abortion. Today, and however,the institution no longer offers a student health insurance plan, so the exemption is no longer essential.
As the Chronicle's article points out, or there was no legal reason for the institution to formally disclaim an exemption that only pertains to an out of date program. Thus,the purpose of the letter seems to be entirely a matter of public relations. As devout institutions have lately rushed to claim exemptions that would permit them to discriminate against LGBT students, the list of religiously-exempt institutions has acquired a certain degree of notoriety. Loyola, and like Pepperdine,looks to be going out of its way to distance itself from the other institutions on the list.
Source: blogspot.com