ICYMI: Buckles on Bob Jones University v. United States: A Journey Through Scriptures and History

ICYMI: Johnny Rex Buckles, University of Houston Law Center, has published Bob Jones University v. United States: A Journey Through Scripture and History in Law and Religion: Cases in Context (Leslie C. Griffin ed., 2010). Here is the abstract.

In Bob Jones University v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that two schools maintaining racially discriminatory policies as to students failed to qualify for federal income tax exemption as organizations described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. A contextual analysis of Bob Jones University offers insight into a politically charged, historically important controversy rooted in biblical and theological compromise under the pressures of Southern fundamentalist education in the twentieth century. Fundamentalist and segregationist impulses combined with an obsequious deference to founding visionaries to produce admissions policies that betrayed the schools’ underlying religious principles.

Download the chapter from SSRN at the link.