Fundamentalist Christian Campaign Against Tolerance Policies Protecting Gays

The Los Angeles Times this morning carries an article detailing the broader campaign behind the lawsuit filed last month by the Alliance Defense Fund challenging the speech code and tolerance policies at Georgia Institute of Technology. The suit is part of a move to force public schools and colleges, as well as private employers, to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment on the ground that such policies interfere with the religious rights of conservative Christians who wish to denounce homosexuality as a sinful lifestyle. Evangelist Rev. Rick Scarborough frames the issue as defending the right to be Christian, and calls it the civil rights struggle of the 21st century.