REPORT: Catholic University may seek legal challenge against DC human rights act banning discrimination against gay groups...

This week signified a victory for CUAllies, the unofficial LGBT campus group at The Catholic University of America. But whether the group and its allies in the larger LGBT community have won the war, or merely a minor skirmish, remains unknown for the time being.

CUAllies has been seeking official recognition from the university, which was founded on Roman Catholic principles, for the past decade. Although the university had an officially recognized LGBT group from the 1980s through the early 2000s, newer generations of administrators have resisted attempts to allow such a group to reconstitute in an official capacity.

Now, by dint of a failure to act by Congress, CUAllies hopes it has gained the upper hand against the administration in its struggle to be recognized.

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