Appellate Court Allows Controversial Christ Play

A federal appeals court has ruled that a student play portraying a homosexual Christ-like figure can go on in Fort Wayne, Ind.

A group of residents opposed to the production of “Corpus Christi” sued to stop the play, arguing that staging it on state university property violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

But U.S. District Judge William C. Lee disagreed, saying that stopping it would infringe on the students’ free-speech rights. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld Lee’s decision 2 to 1.