Arizona State University.

When it comes to gay and lesbian students, Arizona State University is a very accepting place. It has a gay fraternity, a lesbian sorority, and several gay student groups. But that doesn't necessarily mean a campus Christian club has to fall in line.

A recent settlement between the public university and the Christian Legal Society ended a yearlong lawsuit over the evangelical group's barring of sexually active gays and lesbians from membership--an exclusionary policy that the society has sought at several U.S. colleges. According to ASU spokeswoman Terri Shafer, the university will allow the society to recruit Christian members who agree to the group's tenet of celibacy outside marriage, which bars all sexually active unmarried students--gay and straight--and therefore does not violate the university's nondiscrimination policy.

But Mark Lightner, a second-year law student at Arizona State and a former executive board member of ASU's Gay and Lesbian Legal Alliance, is concerned the settlement could allow the society to discriminate against gays because "by definition we can't get married."