“We engage in education, not discrimination.”

Those are the words of the attorney representing California’s public university stem, which has officially “derecognized” 23 Christian student clubs on 19 of its campuses. These clubs belonged to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and required of members to believe in Jesus and abstain from sex until marriage.

Apparently, California’s public universities believe “education” is free of discrimination unless its discrimination against religious students. That’s allowed.

The D-word is coming to a campus near you

“We engage in education, not discrimination.”

That’s how an attorney for the California State University system put it, in explaining to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship why 23 of its student clubs on 19 California campuses this fall have been formally “derecognized” by the state’s public university system.

For the first time this semester, all California State University campuses, serving 391,000 undergrads and 55,000 grad students, have formally embraced what the Supreme Court in 2010 called an “all-comers policy.” The state’s rule requires that every student club be open to every student, in both membership and leadership.

That’s hard news for Christian student clubs, which require of their leaders “personal faith in Jesus Christ” and a commitment to abstain from sex until marriage.