Posted on 06/10/2014 12:26:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BRUNSWICK, Me. — For 40 years, evangelicals at Bowdoin College have gathered periodically to study the Bible together, to pray and to worship. They are a tiny minority on the liberal arts college campus, but they have been a part of the school’s community, gathering in the chapel, the dining center, the dorms.
After this summer, the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship will no longer be recognized by the college. Already, the college has disabled the electronic key cards of the group’s longtime volunteer advisers.
In a collision between religious freedom and antidiscrimination policies, the student group, and its advisers, have refused to agree to the college’s demand that any student, regardless of his or her religious beliefs, should be able to run for election as a leader of any group, including the Christian association.
Similar conflicts are playing out on a handful of campuses around the country, driven by the universities’ desire to rid their campuses of bias, particularly against gay men and lesbians, but also, in the eyes of evangelicals, fueled by a discomfort in academia with conservative forms of Christianity. The universities have been emboldened to regulate religious groups by a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that found it was constitutional for a public law school in California to deny recognition to a Christian student group that excluded gays.
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Yes, and white males should run the NAACP and NOW,
This should be a boon for private Christian colleges.
Can a student who is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church lead a gay group?
Can Non-Anerican lead American groups?
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
To lead Christians in Christian pursuits, one must BE Christian.
I guess BFOQ doesn’t translate into a university setting with regard to student groups.
It is impossible to get rid of bias, only to replace one ideology with another.
Exactly!
Pick small left wing and homosexual groups. Join en masse. Vote out the leadership and elect conservative Christians. Then start holding bible studies.
See how many left wing and homosexual groups that you can take over.
“Bowdoin College” That is the school in Maine where Joshua Lawrence Camberlain was a professor before and then after the Civil War (evenually college president before Maine’s governor). He was awarded a Medal of Honor for his leading of the 20th Maine Regiment on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
He would be horrified.
Talk about a direct attack on this country! And other countries—what isn’t mentioned is that these Christian organizations are often the means by which international students are introduced to Christianity. Many international students return home to become teachers and political leaders, having gained a respect for Christians through their exposure on college campuses.
But my rebellious side also says that avowed Christians should apply for leadership of such campus groups as Muslim Student Association, Planned Parenthood, Communist Student Society. And when they’re rejected, file discrimination charges and lawsuits. And ask that those groups be removed from the college campuses.
Fairness to every individual can never be the only question society asks in establishing social policy otherwise we would have dwarfs in the NBA and blind airline pilots. Anytime you have standards you have people who are left out. As seen here, once morality becomes relative, fairness becomes selective. Students need to recognize what they are sacrificing in the name of ‘fairness’ and the destructive effect it will have…
The political pollution of academics at Bowdoin was documented recently in a study reported by the National Association of Scholars. It was not pretty. but Bowdoin, true to its liberal ideology, pretended the scathing indictment never happened.
Only if you have the guts to push back.
“But my rebellious side also says that avowed Christians should apply for leadership of such campus groups as Muslim Student Association, Planned Parenthood, Communist Student Society. And when they’re rejected, file discrimination charges and lawsuits. And ask that those groups be removed from the college campuses.”
Not a bad plan, but these lawsuits would always be rejected since the “god” of this world controls the court system here.
I offended some SBC folks on an earlier thread because I mentioned how people want Christians to be so much more inclusive. I think enemy infiltration is the biggest reason why Christianity is dying, and a lot of these infiltrators are at the top.
He would be horrified.
Our pastor has preached at Bowdoin, most recently a couple of months ago. He is no longer welcome there. See "What does Bowdoin Teach?" http://www.nas.org/images/documents/What_Does_Bowdoin_Teach.pdf
Hey, why not? The head of the Dept of Religious Affairs in the Soviet Union was always a loyal member of the Communist Party and thus an atheist. If Stalin could do it, why not Bowdoin?
Joshua Chamberlain is NOT horrified. Rather he is sitting, leaning against a tree, weeping and thinking, “for THIS, my men had to die so young? For THIS they then faced Pickett?
For THIS?”
This Jewish man sees the deepest source of bigotry in the administrations of too many colleges and universities and their actions regarding and against organized religions of all denominations, especially Christians. Regarding anti-semitism, they can conveniently disguise it as anti-Israel beliefs.
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