A Supreme Court ruling Monday allows public schools to deny Christian campus groups recognition and funding if it bans any students from being a member or having a leadership role, AP reports.

In a 5-4 vote, the Court voted in favor of the policy at University of California’s Hasting College of the Law that would not recognize or give funding to the Christian Legal Society (CLS) because it required its members and officers to sign a statement of faith that included that “unrepentant participation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle” were inconsistent with the faith. However, the CLS does welcome all students of any beliefs to come to their bible studies.

Because there are very few other public universities that have the same policy as Hastings, the Alliance Defense Fund, the group that represented the CLS, expects the ruling to have little immediate effect on other student groups. But they are concerned about the long-term effects of this ruling.

“The Hastings policy actually requires CLS to allow atheists to lead its Bible studies and the College Democrats to accept the election of Republican officers in order for the groups to be recognized on campus,” explained ADF Senior Legal Counsel Gregory S. Baylor, in a statement. “We agree with Justice Alito in his dissent that the court should have rejected this as absurd.”