Sen. Josh Hawley Wants Yale’s Federal Funding Stripped If Religious Students Are Not Treated Fairly

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said he wanted Yale University’s federal funding taken away if the school was not treating religious students fairly in an appearance with Fox & Friends Wednesday.

“I want to see that they are treating religious students and religious organizations in the same way they treat every other legal organization and every other student,” Hawley, who is also a Yale Law School alumnus, said.

“If Yale doesn’t do that, if they don’t treat religious students fairly, they should have their federal funding stripped,” Hawley continued.

Hawley’s remarks come as Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he will investigate the law school’s policy that allegedly blacklists Christian Groups. Yale Law changed its policy on school stipends following complaints from LGBTQ group Outlaws, who criticized the Federalist Society for inviting a lawyer from Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom  in February.

“The Law School cannot prohibit a student from working for an employer who discriminates, but that is not a reason why Yale Law School should bear any obligation to fund that work, particularly if that organization does not give equal employment opportunity to all of our students,” an email from law school dean Heather Gerken said, the Washington Examiner reported.

“It sounds like Yale now has been exposed for what they’re doing and now they are trying to backtrack,” Hawley said. “There is still a lot of oh, trust us, trust us, we’ll get it right. We are not going to trust anything. I want to seat details of their policy.”

Hawley added that Yale and other elite schools were becoming more discriminatory.

“I’m afraid it just get worse and worse,” Hawley said. “A lot of these elite institutions are becoming more and more discriminatory even as by the way they build up these multi-billion-dollar endowments. They are taking all this taxpayer money. They are getting rich off of it. This isn’t right.”

Hawley graduated from Yale Law School in 2006.