Posted on 03/30/2019 12:18:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
AUSTIN, Texas — Some Christian schools have encountered hospitals and schools that refuse to accept their nursing and education students for jobs and internships, Shirley Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, told The Christian Post.
The students are being turned away due to the colleges' understanding of marriage as between one man and one woman. The problem is not widespread, Hoogstra explained, but it is an issue that the CCCU has been dealing with and is concerned about for the future.
"There have been small pockets in the United States where Christian colleges that have held a traditional understanding of marriage have had some of their professional programs impacted," she said. "For instance, there have been some public schools that will not allow teachers into their schools. Not because they have witnessed the student teachers in any way being bigoted or discriminatory, but because they have a penalty against a school that has a traditional understanding of marriage.
"In terms of nursing placements, this has repeatedly been a conversation between the public hospitals and nursing placements for student nurses. It's not widespread yet, but there are pockets of it, which concerns us."
Hoogstra clarified that it has nothing to do with the personal beliefs of the students, but the positions of the schools. "It could be the student has a very open understanding of marriage, but it doesn't matter, it's a categorical ban because the institution holds a particular historic understanding of marriage."
Concerns over the religious freedom of Christian colleges were also heard at CCCU's Feb. 1 President's Conference in Washington, D.C.
During that event, Shirley Mullen, the president of Houghton College and vice chair of CCCU's board of directors, noted the "standard western narrative of progress has assumed that deeply-held religious beliefs ... result in intolerance, conflict, violence, oppression." And while many view Christian higher ed as "very monolithic internally," in fact, Christian education is "often really tough-minded, thoughtful dialogue."
Hoogstra was in Austin Tuesday to lead a workshop on religious freedom for Advocacy Day, a two-day event at Woodlawn Baptist Church sponsored by the Texas Baptists' Christian Life Commission.
About 200 people attended the event where conservative Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson was the keynote speaker. On Wednesday, attendees visited political leaders in the Texas legislature to discuss issues they care about. According to a 26-page "Advocacy and Public Policy Guide" given to all the attendees, these issues included children and families, human trafficking, immigration, religious liberty, poverty, and life.
The other workshops were on prison reform, immigration, abortion and adoption, education, and the ONE Campaign. There were also two workshops for Spanish speakers.
The Texas Baptists, or the Baptist General Convention of Texas, is an affiliation of 5,300 churches in Texas from a broad spectrum of Baptist denominations.
Christian colleges, Hoogstra added during her workshop, are the "tip of the spear" on the issue of religious liberty for Christians.
The CCCU represents more than 180 Christian colleges and universities around the world. According to its website, "The CCCU’s mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth."
That’s blatantly against the law if true
The Left will attempt to destroy ALL who disagree with them. Is anyone surprised??
“standard western narrative of progress has assumed that deeply-held religious beliefs ... result in intolerance, conflict, violence, oppression.”
Seems to me that the intolerance, conflict, violence and oppression often are aimed at the deeply-held religious beliefs.
also it’s persecution
and very “deeply held religious beliefs” is largely why we have the USofA
Let those leftists enclaves medicate themselves and their thousands of homeless and illegals spreading tropical disease.
I seem to recall that a few years ago the University of Washington Medical School severed ties with all Catholic hospitals on the grounds that the hospitals would not perform abortions. I think the university was also trying to force people who opposed abortion to participate in abortions in some way or other, thereby forcing them to choose between their faith and their chosen profession and future livelihood.
The communists are taking over, religion has to go.
Can’t be trusted to participate in baby-killing or assisted suicide, so screen ‘em out.
Hoogstra should name the hospitals in question in order to make this article and her findings create some movement.
Inquiring minds want to know.
I suspect this is about abortion.
File a lawsuit quoting the koran as your religious beliefs being violated against federal law. Let them choke on it
What’s the flip side? Christian schools not wanting to hire actively known homosexuals who may happen to be married to one of their own sex. Or maybe just a very liberal sjw.
If I were a parent paying tuition to a Christian school, I would certainly protest this type of faculty.
You can’t have it both ways. If you want to preserve and protect your own deeply held beliefs, you also have to allow others to hold theirs.
If you fight against it, you invite the lizards into your institutions.
There are enough Christian hospitals across the country that you shouldn’t need to put yourself through the aggravation of fighting corruption.
It may mean you have to relocate, but a lot of good jobs frequently require exactly that. Not a big deal.
That’s a very bad idea.
Christian nurses are the only defense against SADISTIC nurses.
to participate in abortions in some way or other,
= = =
Hmmm . . .
If some persons did not participate in sex, so as to not become pregnant,
Is that kind of like abortion???
Jews and Christians will be big targets on the march towards genocide.
Private entities can do what they wish.
However organizations accepting public dollars cannot.
They want to eliminate Christianity.
Democrats are evil scum.
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