Posted on 04/02/2021 8:07:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thirty-three self-identified LGBTQ etc. students who are currently attending Christian universities have sued the Department of Education, demanding that all federal funding be withdrawn from those institutions. This suit is an inevitable sequel to the Obergefell lawsuit, which put the whole non-traditional sexual identity spectrum into the Constitution. However, it also highlights that Christian institutions should never have gotten entangled with the federal government.
In typically histrionic terms, the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Eugene, Oregon, claims that it's a necessity because the court must "put an end to the U.S. Department of Education's complicity in the abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities." According to the plaintiffs — all of whom voluntarily attended Christian universities — they're suffering horribly at the schools of their choice.
What's really happening is that these Christian institutions live by Christian values — and one of the core Christian values is that God created man and woman and intended them to be a matched set. As the old line goes, it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. And it's certainly not Adam and a human creature who declines to identify as either Steve or Eve but, on different days, will engage in sterilized sexual activity with whatever catches his/her/its fancy. Moreover, the First Amendment explicitly ensures that Christian institutions have the right to hold these beliefs — beliefs, incidentally, that were the norm when the Founders ratified the Bill of Rights.
The recently filed lawsuit became inevitable when the Supreme Court decided Obergefell. Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy decided that the Constitution has some unwritten provisions about everyone's right to be loved and accepted. Add in a few penumbras and emanations, and — bada-bing, bada-boom — LGBTQ etc. relationships
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Fine, take the Federal dollar and you are the Federal slave.
Nobody is anyone’s slave. The federal government has money only because of our taxes that they keep collecting.
But the groundwork was laid years ago by becoming dependent government money.
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