Texas A&M  turned down a request for funding from the Aggie Conservatives citing a reason which is obviously bogus. Now the Aggie Conservatives are suing. Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform has the story.  (Emphasis in original)

Yesterday [June 28], the Texas Aggie Conservatives and Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) lawyers filed a lawsuit against Texas A&M University to challenge its policy on allocating funds to student organizations.

“The Constitution does not allow Texas A&M to set aside funds for student groups and then distribute them in a discriminatory manner that excludes groups with certain political or religious viewpoints,” said ADF Legal Counsel David Hacker. “ADF filed this lawsuit to restore fairness and equal access to funding allocations at A&M.”

ADF has litigated similar cases in the past with great success.

Last fall, the Texas Aggie Conservatives submitted a funding request to the university’s Student Organization Advisory Board to off-set some of the costs of bringing conservative speaker Star Parker to campus to speak on the topics of poverty, race, and social justice.

The university denied the request, saying funds “cannot be approved for recognized organizations with a classification of social and political issues.”

However, the university has allocated funding to other student organizations that are classified as “Social and Political” or that have received funding for events addressing social and political issues.

These organizations include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapter, Black Student Alliance (BSA), and TAMU V-Day, which hosts the V-Monologues.

In the past, Texas A&M allocated $500 to NAACP, $500 to MSA, $750 to BSA, and $800 to TAMU V-Day.

CampusReform.org contacted various university officials for comment, including those listed as defendants by ADF. All of them were unavailable or refused to comment.