The University of Chicago’s Cass Sunstein examines at the Social Science Research Network whether the law can ban sex discrimination at religious institutions – a potentially revolutionary proposition for many church-based colleges.

His answer, as offered by Karen Winkler in a blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education? “In brief: Yes.”

Where could this lead? To the state forcing Catholics and Orthodox Jews to ordain women?

Perhaps, but, in any case, this is an insight into the extent to which elite liberal opinion is willing to challenging religious liberty.

(tip: Winfield Myers)