Federal court rejects lawsuit seeking to invalidate Title IX religious exemption

LGBTQ students alleged discrimination by Christian schools

Veronica Bonifacio Penales, a prelaw student at Baylor University, was one of the plaintiffs in Hunter v. U.S. Department of Education. Kevin Truong photo provided by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project.

A group of current and former LGBTQ college students has been set back in its effort to overturn the religious exemption of Title IX, the lan…