Right to Associate, or Discriminate?

There's a growing battle between conservative campus Christian groups at public colleges and gay students who try to join.

At state institutions funded by taxpayer money, should such groups be able to exclude gays in defiance of their school's own non-discrimination policies? I'd argue that the right to freely associate is constrained when you dip into the government's till. But then should gay groups be forced to admit anti-gay religious conservatives who apply for membership (keeping in mind that the same policies the ban sexual orientation discrimination also forbid discrimination on the basis of religion)?

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