Posted on 11/02/2005 11:47:38 AM PST by NavVet
In a shameful attack on freedom of religion, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has banned resident assistants (RAs) from leading Bible studies in their own dormitories.
The university claims the ban is necessary because some students might not feel RAs who lead Bible studies are "approachable.”
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Which is why you MUST stay and continue the fight against the left!
They will force Resident Assistants to hold back alley Bible studies.
Well, someone has to by the beer.
"RAs are employees? Man, things sure have changed in the 30+ years since I went to college.
Are you sure about this?"
Yep. They're employees. They receive compensation, in the form of free rent. They have job descriptions, duties, and responsibilities assigned to them by their employer.
Frankly, as I've said, I see no reason they shouldn't lead Bible studies. My point was that the New Smacks headline was incorret. The school is not banning Bible Study in the dorm at all. It is banning some of its employees from leading Bible Studies in their dorm. Big difference.
Yeah, Let's ban Bible Studies so we can go watch the Hard Core Live Sex shows on Campus Cable TV! Makes a lot of sense to me!
Got it! My ping is up the thread.
But thanks. This is really a bad one. Universities are cesspools. Porn? Great. Gay everything all the time? Fine! Womyns' studies that are nothing but lesbian ranting and porn? Awesome. Communism and socialism as Gospel? Very good. Porn stars and prostitutes leading workshops? Covered by the consitution.
But Bible studies by employees, on their own time in their private quarters? VERBOTEN!
Yes, that too.
It's an assault on a perso being allowed to do things which might make them "unapproachable" if they are a public employee.
And what do the powers-that-be think makes a person unapproachable? The only thing they seem to have banned is overt acts of christianity.
If they force female RAs to wear Burkas because otherwise muslims might find them unapproachable, I'll believe this isn't an assault on christianity.
So what if it's an RA?? They have off duty time just like everyone else.
I thought this was supposed to be a free country.
If you are going to restrict what the RA's do behind closed doors in their own rooms by calling them employees, then they had better not be working on political campaigns, discussing religion on the phone with family members etc. Basically, anything that the president of the university couldn't do in a room full of reporters would be off limits.
I think the distinction you are missing is that being an RA is not a full time job, and I think most people would agree that what an RA does with other consenting adults, on his or her own time, in his own living room, should be no concern of the university.
You are a Christian by what you believe and how you act, not by reading a book to a group.
Even if they are employees, why don't they get the guaranteed right of freedom of religion? Or is that just for Muslims now?
When I was an RA in college (public university), we had similar rules... one is, more or less, "on call" 24/7 for emergencies, and my office (next to my dorm room), was considered public space, and I was awakened in the middle of the night a couple times with emergencies. I never thought of leading a prayer meeting, and I guess I would have done that someplace else. Students were only proscribed from using alcohol and other drugs, but otherwise no rules on what went on in their dorm rooms.
Considering the large Jewish population there, "Bible studies" as such never came up ... but neither did "Jewish studies" or any other explicitly religious gathering. There was a yoga class in the downstairs common area. Churches, temples, and even a mosque were within walking distance of campus, so that was probably why..
Yeah, right. And if the RA was leading a "gay/lesbian/bi/questioning/transgender support group," any student that had a problem with that would be told to grow up and stop being "hateful."
What happened to the Democrats scream to the Right to privacy. Oh yea, that's only if you want to murder your unborn child.
UNTRUE! It applies to sodomy as well!
So what, indeed. I don't care if the RAs lead Bible studies, for pete's sake. I do care that the headline on this article intimates that no Bible Studies are allowed in the dorm. Not so.
Since many folks read only the headline....
As far as I'm concerned RAs can do whatever the heck they want. I moved out of the dorm after the first semester, mainly due to a RA Nazi who kept messing with my stuff during "unannounced inspections."
I DO NOT CARE IF RAs LEAD BIBLE STUDIES!!!
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