Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of VA

In Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of VA. (1995) 515 U.S. 819, a divided Supreme Court held that denial of funding to a student newspaper with a Christian viewpoint, from a university fund created to pay printing costs of student publications, was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, in that any benefit to religion would be incidental to the government's provision of services on a religion-neutral basis, and denial of funding would be based on the message being communicated. (Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va., supra, 515 U.S. at pp. 829, 843-844.)