The police power "is an unconstitutional delegation of 'an important discretionary governmental power' to a religious institution in the context of the First Amendment," Wynn wrote before he left the state bench to join the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
The unanimous ruling means there's no automatic appeal to the state Supreme Court. If an appeal is sought, judges Donna Stroud and Cheri Beasley urged the Supreme Court to consider the case to clarify whether a college or university with a religious affiliation should be allowed to receive the delegated authority if it doesn't seek to impose beliefs or indoctrinate students.
(Is this Bob Jones University that they are talking about?)
So no faith based college in america, including Notre Dame, Marquette, tec, can have campus police?
That’s fine, just let all the students carry and conceal.
Problem solved.
Bob Jones is in South Carolina, not NC. It’s Davidson College.
So basically instead of arresting an offender and taking them to the local lockup, they have to detain them at the university, call a local police officer and have him pick up the perp and drive him to the lock up?
So, THIS is how the government will be attempting to crush private colleges: forbid defense against illegality.
Gee, what parent wouldn’t want to send a child to such a place?
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
People pay inflated taxes to the police - they have a right to the service.
BJU is in South Carolina.
A NC state lawmaker should start impeachment proceedings for these three judges. They obviously either a) are completely ignorant of what the First Amendment means or b) have no desire to uphold their oath of office. Either way, they have to go.
This is a serious and perhaps ignorant question for me to pose, but what prevents ordinary citizens from detaining a suspect, placing charges against the suspect, convening a Grand Jury, arraigning the suspect, gathering evidence, calling witnesses, holding a trial, and imposing a sentence? (Assume all participants slept at a Holiday Inn the pervious night)
Huh...? The courts are mad.
A religious college should be granted exactly the same powers with regard to campus law enforcement as a public or private secular school. To do anything else is to discriminate on the basis of religion.
Good outcome, bad reason. Colleges need security, but need not to be cops upholding the onerous, niggardly and overabundant laws of our modern times. Watchmen, protectors and first responders are all that is needed. Those roles do not mesh well with much of the modern ‘cops’ ethos.
LeTourneau University in Longview, TX has campus police that are sworn police officers, carry firearms, and have the power to arrest. LeTourneau University is an unapologetic evangelical Christian college. This year again it is ranked highly in U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s best universities.
Of course, here in Texas, we probably have a little different attitude toward guns and justice.
“....he left the state bench to join the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week.”
Doesn’t that say it all right there? The 4th Circuit, FReepers should know, is the one that reversed the jury decision in Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church and the Phelps family.