Faced with a lawsuit, a community college system in Texas has revised its policies after ousting a conservative student group.



Lone Star College officials have agreed to make policy changes to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of the group Young Conservatives of Texas.

The policy changes ensure that the college, located in the Houston area, will no longer discriminate against student groups based on their viewpoints.

Young Conservatives of Texas alleged in February that the CyFair campus derecognized the group after it posted a video online of an abortion debate on campus.

"Public colleges are supposed to be the marketplace of ideas, but that marketplace can't function if only university-approved ideas are allowed," ADF attorney Tyson Langhofer said in February when the lawsuit was filed. "The courts have repeatedly found policies like the one here at Lone Star unconstitutional."

In light of the settlement, ADF attorneys filed a voluntary dismissal of the case May 8, which the court accepted.