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Alberta Catholic school boards and their counterparts in Ontario and Saskatchewan are interveners in a case bound for the Supreme Court involving a B.C. private Christian liberal arts university that pits religious freedom against equality rights.

The move prompted Alberta Education Minister David Eggen to say school boards should be spending public education dollars in schools, and not on litigation.

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“I recognize how they would be concerned, but I would caution any school board to make sure they’re spending money in the classroom as much as they can,” Eggen told reporters Monday.

While seeking assurance of accreditation for future law school graduates, Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., has battled law societies in B.C., Ontario and Nova Scotia that object to the school’s code of conduct.

Trinity Western’s “community covenant” requires students to abstain from obscene language, harassment, lying, stealing, pornography, drunkenness and sexual intimacy “that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.” Advocates say that discriminates against LGBTQ students.