Posted on 09/09/2014 6:32:05 AM PDT by xzins
A new policy put in place by Cal State University could cost InterVarsity and other Christian groups up to $460,000 to meet on campus because they cannot change their leadership requirements to include any student.
"No campus shall recognize any fraternity, sorority, living group, honor society, or other student organization unless its membership and leadership are open to all currently enrolled students at that campus," the policy states.
The rule requires leadership positions to be open to any student, regardless of whether they hold the same beliefs as the Club. The policy went into effect in 2012 but up until this year religious clubs had been granted an exemption.
Being a recognized student group had allowed InterVarsity to reserve rooms for club meetings and events at no cost. Still, the Christian group refuses to bend their belief requirements to accommodate the new rule.
"We estimate that it will cost each of the 23 InterVarsity chapters serving Cal State campuses up to $20,000 a year to rent rooms, generate awareness, and meet new students if we are unrecognized in the coming year," Greg Jao, who is leading InterVarsity's response to the new policy, said in a video message.
Cal State is the nation's largest university system with nearly 450,000 students on 23 campuses.
"It's particularly important that InterVarsity student leaders embrace scripture's teaching about who God is, what Jesus has accomplished on the cross, and how the Holy Spirit transforms us," Jao said.
InterVarsity has asked for support from outside donors and for prayer as they embark on new ways to accomplish the purpose and vision of their group.
"We may be unrecognized in the coming year, but we will not be off campus. InterVarsity is committed to grow our current ministries and plant new ministries in the Cal State system," Jao said.
Or the Muzzie club? How about if a regular WASP walks into the Muzzie club meeting leading his pot bellied pet pig and announcing he’s running for Grand Mufty? Gotta be OK, right?
All of those clubs are listed under the Asian Pacific grouping.....seems odd not to have any Christian groups in there.
I don’t want to do what you suggest. It seems like accepting dhimmi status to me.
Islamists would quietly dispatch the Pentecostal off campus after they let him join... No restrictions on membership. The question wold be as to whether you survive a membership.
Leaving government largess is never subservient. If anything, it is the path to freedom and liberty.
Dhimmis must pay their masters for the right to live. But if masters pay someone, and they take his pay, they are his servants, more or less.
If Christian organizations move off campus, they can openly evangelize and proselytize other students without hindrance. They no longer have to respect rules that inhibit their faith or religion. And they can even speak out against those who oppress them, be they secular or those of other religions.
She is the head of University of California. The organization discussed in the article is California State University system. Different organizations.
Whatever happened to the tolerance that leftists claimed to support?
Leftists never supported “tolerance”, they only demanded it from their enemies. Like Muslims and dhimmihood.
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This is a long-sought leftist tactic of opening up an organization’s membership to anyone regardless that the organization may be specifically for people of a common interest.
Moslems can join Hillel and take over the Jewish organization, thus destroying it as a Jewish service organization.
Dems can overwhelm Republican groups, and, in a perfect world, vice-versa.
Lesbians can join Catholic organizations, atheists can join any religious group, and communists can wreak havoc all over the campus.
Time for some serious legal help and lawsuits.
does this mean the black groups MUST allow non blacks into leadership roles?....I’ll bet it doesn’t....
God help us, please....
Would the football team allow any student to attend practice? Or join the team?
For the record I was responding to a cheap shot on California
by Texas Eagle. And, since I don’t live by politics alone, I am
more than happy to stay in California with or without your
encouragement.
When God withdraws his blessing bad things happen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
You probably think nothing bad would happen if Israel let the Muslims return to the land they abandoned, and let them vote.
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True, but they could pretend in mass numbers to be Christians to join the group and then vote an undercover Atheist or LGBT member as a Leader...
Now see, the Christian groups need a similiar strive paragraph....
We strive to eliminate hatred of Christians, the Bible, any portion thereof, as we believe every word is from God. We strive to eliminate the non-belief in God, the Lord, Jesus Christ and any teachings thereof contained in any part of the Bible......We strive to eliminate institutional forms of marginalization ....and blatant misinformation of the word of the Lord...
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