(Forward) Bar-Ilan University in Israel barred an LGBT student group from holding a gay pride event on campus.

The Tel Aviv-area university, which is public but has a religious mission and a disproportionately Orthodox student body, objected on religious grounds, according to a spokesman who cited the school’s “religious character” and the halachic prohibition on homosexual relations, Haaretz reported Wednesday. Bar-Ilan also refused to allow the group to publicize the June 22 event on campus.

Haim Zisovich, the university spokesman, said allowing a gay pride event would be comparable to permitting a program that encouraged pedophilia.

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