Yale Law School has good reason to worry about Sen. Ted Cruz’s well-aimed threat of legal action against it for what certainly looks like religious discrimination.

Student groups led by an LGBT advocacy group known as the Outlaws pressured the university to refuse otherwise widely available stipends or loan forgiveness to students who take summer or postgraduate fellowships with organizations promoting traditional Christian views.

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