Qualified immunity won't protect college administrators who discriminate against religion The school used a policy meant to protect religious groups to exclude them instead. That violates the Constitution. Daniel Blomberg Opinion contributor College officials have been put on notice: targeting religious student groups isn’t just unconstitutional, it’s costly. A federal court of appeals this month agreed with my firm, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, that University of Iowa officials “turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence” by punishing Christian, Muslim, and Sikh groups for the crime of asking their leaders to agree with their faith.