Last month, the system's Board of Regents unanimously adopted a ban on holding drag shows at any of its schools' special event venues, calling such shows "inconsistent with the system's mission and core values of its universities, including the value of respect for others." The libertarian group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) quickly filed a lawsuit on behalf of QEC, declaring drag "protected expression" under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

The Board said that Rudder Theatre, where "Draggieland" was to be held, was a "limited public forum" rather than a "designated public forum," giving the university greater discretion over how it could be used.

But Rosenthal rejected that argument, The College Fix reports, finding that "both the performance and monologues that comprise Draggieland are intended to convey a culturally significant message about [so-called] LGBTQ+ rights" and therefore constitute protected speech and expression and that the ban was "quintessential" viewpoint discrimination, "which creates the presumption that the ban is unconstitutional regardless of the type of forum."

The issue reflects an ongoing debate between maintaining public venues as open, viewpoint-neutral forums for differing views and at what point the taxpayers who support those venues have a right to refuse to support certain types of content to which they object... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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