Posted on 09/06/2014 11:29:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
As college students hit their campuses and get back to class, many are facing an unprecedented attack on their First Amendment rights to religious freedom and free speech. Just as sure as atheists will sue to remove Nativity scenes at Christmastime, the new school year will no doubt bring many lawsuits on campuses across the country that seek to suppress viewpoints that the university administration holds to be contrary to their own.
Many would say that suing to remove something that represents exactly what Christmas stands for is absurd and it is no less ridiculous what is happening at universities across the country. Student groups are being forced to either disband or let anyone who wants to run their student groups do so – as in, a Christian student group would be forced to allow an atheist to be its president, the Republican group on campus would be forced to let a Democrat lead their organization, a pro-choice person leading the pro-life group, etc.
Some universities didn’t bother to wait until the new school year started to start enacting these policies.
At the nation’s largest university system, Cal State, the administration has already announced that they are preparing to withdraw official recognition of evangelical student groups because they supposedly discriminate against their leaders based on religion. Read that again. Evangelical groups, by their very definition, support a specific theology and doctrine of Christianity and strive to live out their faith in their daily lives based upon those beliefs. It’s not discrimination to demand that their leader actually be a Christian themselves.
At Vanderbilt University, several Christian groups have already been ceased to be recognized by the university because they also care about who their leaders are and want them to be professed Christians.
None of these campus groups discriminate against students who want to join their group. They welcome anyone who wants to come and see what they are all about. But when it comes to the people who lead the Christian groups, yes, they want them to agree with what the group stands for.
Vanderbilt’s policy in particular is troubling because they allow the religious groups to exist as long as they don’t stand for anything in particular. Because no one ever gave their lives up because they were Christians apparently.
Every year Christian and pro-life students – new and returning – walk onto college campuses and are faced head on with belief systems that radically differ from their own. They will be challenged, mocked and discriminated against because of what they believe. They need these Christian groups on campus to have a sense of fellowship and belonging amidst what is a very trying time.
The importance of a community on campus to support and encourage these students cannot be understated. Perhaps that is a reason for the vicious backlash of these universities against groups that have done nothing wrong except profess a belief system that is based on love, kindness, generosity and protection of the most vulnerable among us.
To these brave college students facing adversity from the minute they walk onto campus, don’t give up. There are many groups out there, including ours, who can and will help. This is worth fighting for.
Will the muslim students let an infidel or a Jew lead them? For that matter, would the MeCHA or the Black student union let an Asian lead them? How about having a boy lead a sorority?
Liberals don’t believe in freedom of speech,. religion, or much else.
They don’t even believe in what they call “a woman’s right to choose” if she makes what they consider to be the wrong choice (i.e., she decides to keep the child.)
Christians should use these rules to “break” other groups. Once the rule is used against the left, they abandon the rule. I’ve seen it happen several times in other settings.
Yep. Christians should join the LGBT groups and subvert them from within.
Or chooses adoption, giving the child away.
As long as he’s a flaming homosexual, he pretty much is a girl, and can lead a sorority...
Found this today:
How we got here
By
Ushanka
“Why are we here today?” she asked
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“A cultural revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make cultural revolution? She demanded.
”By destroying the American family,” they answered.
“How do we destroy the American family? She came back.
“By destroying the American patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted..
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left her dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my her. Was this planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
Allow me to beat this dead horse again.
Communism cannot take hold until both fathers and God are replaced by government. (See the inner-city black community.)
When someone asks you to dilute your family or religious values, they are really inviting you to join the Communist Party.
Oops!
Should be: “Their answer left her dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving her ears. Was this planet earth? Who were these people?
This is scary
Oh yeah, it’s scary alright. What’s REALLY scary is the fact that we allowed all this to happen and - at the same time - unwittingly taught our children to let even worse happen on their watch.
I think the Roman citizens had it better than we since they didn’t have the “benefit” of instant communications to let them know just how far they were falling. Some say our country began its fall around 1913 while others say Lincoln pushed us over the edge. In either case we can see where we’re going and all we can realistically do is try to land in a space between the sharper rocks.
God bless America and God help us all!
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