A U.S. Jewish student is the co-plaintiff in a suit against her university’s tolerance policy. Orit Sklar and Ruth Malhotra, a Christian, are suing the Georgia Institute of Technology for unspecified damages, saying that the school’s ban on hate speech due to sexual orientation infringes on their religious freedom.
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