Jesus laughing.
Posted on 03/31/2021 6:07:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When five unelected super-legislators on the Supreme Court unilaterally amended the Constitution to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the ruling would pose “hard questions” about the freedom of religious colleges to operate according to their convictions. Former Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said, “It will be an issue.” This week, Roberts’ warning has come to pass, and the time in which Verrilli’s “issue” comes to the fore is now.
On Monday, 33 current and former students at federally-funded Christian colleges and universities launched a historic attack on religious freedom by filing a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Education (DoE). The lawsuit, Hunter et al. v. Department of Education, claims that the DoE violated the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution by granting religious exemptions to Christian institutions that allegedly “discriminate” against “sexual and gender minorities.”
“The religious exemption to Title IX impermissibly burdens the fundamental marriage rights of same-sex couples seeking to attend taxpayer funded religious educational institutions that prohibit their marriages,” the lawsuit, filed by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, alleges. “When sincerely held religious beliefs become enacted as school policies that harm LGBTQ+ students at taxpayer-funded colleges and universities, the necessary consequence is that the U.S. Department of Education has put its imprimatur on an exclusion that demeans and stigmatizes sexual and gender minorities.”
“The federal government cannot claim a legitimate governmental interest in furthering discrimination that harms sexual and gender minority students,” the lawsuit adds.
The lawsuit squarely takes aim at a central point of biblical Christian conviction: the idea that Christians are to “love the sinner but hate the sin.” Christians, who are redeemed sinners themselves, should offer the grace they received in Jesus Christ to sinners, while encouraging themselves and others to stop sinning.
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How did it end for Sodom?
Ahhh, so here’s the rub — These colleges ACCEPT Federal government money!!
Here’s the paragraph that tells us that:
“According to the lawsuit, the Department of Education and other federal agencies provide billions of dollars annually ($4.2 billion in 2018) to “religious colleges and universities that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.” That funding includes student financial aid, research grants, and other forms of funding. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction that would cut off all of that funding.”
That my FRiends, is why colleges like Grove City College and Hillsdale College REFUSE to accept government aid. They don’t want the Feds interfering with the way they run their education.
Ahhh, so here’s the rub — These colleges ACCEPT Federal government money!!
Here’s the paragraph that tells us that:
“According to the lawsuit, the Department of Education and other federal agencies provide billions of dollars annually ($4.2 billion in 2018) to “religious colleges and universities that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.” That funding includes student financial aid, research grants, and other forms of funding. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction that would cut off all of that funding.”
That my FRiends, is why colleges like Grove City College and Hillsdale College REFUSE to accept government aid. They don’t want the Feds interfering with the way they run their education.
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I think I know which side is going to win this one.
Why are’t the parents in many states proposing a class action suit against the education unions (boards) in many states. They need organization.
RE: Why are’t the parents in many states proposing a class action suit against the education unions (boards) in many states.
Maybe because not enough parents in even these Christian Schools care one way or the other.
As Edmund Burke once said: The Only way for evil to triumph is for enough good people to do nothing.
These former “students” clearly did not know the Lord.
Christian University shouldn’t be taking federal funds and their attached strings.
Government, including our “illustrious” Federal one, is the extension of the citizens, not the other way around. I do not default to bending the knee in terms of public verses private sectors.
Federal government has a history of funding, starting with the Articles of Confederation and continuing after, supporting religious institutions with tax payer dollars.
Oppressors.
I told friends in 2015 that, although Christians did not move on the issue, the line moved. Before Obergefell, Christians were on the legal side of the line. Afterward, they are now on the illegal side. Lawbreakers, exposed, just like that.
Rather, the federal government cannot claim a legitimate governmental interest in enforcing the acceptance of LGBT ideology.
Jesus laughing.
The student loan program was taken over by the government. Should students be prohibited from borrowing education money to attend those schools? It is a loan to the student, not the institution. By that reasoning, any organization will be liable to government regulation because somewhere government funds something that benefits the institution, e.g., roads, utilities, police and fire service.
That is my largest fear these days.
RE: That is my largest fear these days.
Your fears were realized in the January 5 Senate election runoffs in Georgia this year.
“Their women exchanged the normal practices of sexual intercourse for something which is abnormal and unnatural.
Similarly the men, turning from natural intercourse with women, were swept into lustful passions for one another. Men with men performed these shameful horrors, receiving, of course, in their own personalities the consequences of sexual perversity.”
(New Testament, Romans 1:26,27)
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