Posted on 09/19/2019 6:27:05 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Duke University’s student government has declined to recognize a national Christian organization as an official student group because of its stance on LGBTQ issues.
The student senate unanimously voted against Young Life last week, the Duke Chronicle reported.
Young Life, with local chapters in Durham and Chapel Hill, aims to introduce teens to Christianity and help them grow in their faith. The group has a rule that bans LGBTQ individuals from leadership positions, according to the student newspaper. The Duke student senate said that violates the Student Organization Finance Committee’s rule that every Duke student group must include a nondiscrimination statement in its constitution.
A Young Life sexual misconduct policy says it doesn’t exclude people “who practice a homosexual lifestyle from being recipients of ministry of God’s grace,” however, “such persons are not to serve as staff or volunteers in the mission and work of Young Life,” the Chronicle reported.
“They don’t have a non-discrimination clause in their constitution; they have a discrimination clause,” student senator Jackson Kennedy said at an earlier student government meeting where the issue was tabled.
The student government’s rules require that each student organization “affirms the spirit and letter of the University’s non-discrimination statement.” That statement from the Office for Institutional Equity says Duke prohibits “discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and gender expression.”
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But, on the other hand, a student club dedicated to promoting sodomy would be welcomed and funded to the max.
My 20 year old son is a student and full time staff for YL. He is learnig quickly how intolerant the “tolerant “ left is. Just forwarded this article to him.
By definition an Islamic organization bans Gays! They won’t dare to stop them.
But on the other hand it’s perfectly acceptable to discriminate against Christians and their beliefs.
Cheers for the queers.
There are many Christian organizations that have been forced off-campus because of these types of disputes. The libs know what they are doing with these. Forcing Christians off campus is part of their unannounced goal.
Ask the Islamist groups if they will accept homosexuals
There will, someday, be a big and ugly backlash against political homosexuality.
So tolerant of Duke.
Anddddddd that’s 1 point for the gay mafia. Gotta hand it to them, their shakedown game is strong.
FU Duke Pukes
Intolerant leftists. Again.
I am just amazed that these idiots didn’t vote to remove Duke’s Divinity School or tear down Duke Chapel.
They need to switch over to the Blue Devils that they are
Anyone who hasn’t written off Duke as a result of their leadership’s handling of the Duke Lacrosse fiasco isn’t paying attention. And I include Mike Krzyzewski as part of the leadership.
But all these other groups can excludepeople if they aren’t lgbt advocates.
I guess schools dont teach the meaning of the word hypocrisy anymore.
Maybe it’s already compromised
Time to fight back with lawyers and sue these asshole indoctrination centers disguised and University’s and bankrupt them one by one!
Just another of countless examples demonstrating college degrees these days are not worth the paper they are printed on. The rationale is breathtakingly self-contradicting and devoid of any intellectual, rational thought (they are themselves engaging in discrimination)...yet it was a unanimous vote, and all of those student senators will be awarded degrees by the institution.
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