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 restrictions preventing “Dr. Bishop from making assertions about his religious beliefs vis-à-vis the subject matter of his course” and disassociating his after-class meetings from his courses were reasonable and sufficiently supported by its asserted interests. Id.

Here, on the other hand, Defendants assert the challenged provisions address the pedagogical concern of reducing racism or prohibiting racial discrimination as an extension of federal law under Title IX. See Tr. at 89. But even if this Court agrees this is a legitimate concern motivating the IFA’s enactment, the restriction the State of Florida imposes upon its public university employees—a viewpoint-discriminatory ban targeting protected in-class speech—is certainly not reasonable.

Defendants try to dress up the State of Florida’s interest as a public employer and educator as prohibiting discrimination in university classrooms, but this does not give Defendants a safe harbor in which to enforce viewpoint-based restrictions targeting protected speech. In short, it is no answer that the challenged provisions are situated within an antidiscrimination law. To the extent Defendants suggest a viewpoint-discriminatory restriction on protected speech is immunized from a First Amendment challenge because it is situated within an antidiscrimination law, they are mistaken.

Following Defendants’ suggestion during the hearing that the IFA represents merely an extension of Title IX, this Court engaged in a lengthy discussion with