Posted on 03/24/2021 3:52:27 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Christian students have won a legal challenge against the University of Iowa after school administrators banned the Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) student group from campus for requiring its student leaders to affirm the Christian faith.
A federal appeals court has ruled that university officials who kicked BLinC off campus because of its faith can be held personally accountable for the harm they caused, according to a press release from Becket Law, a non-profit public interest law firm that defends religious expression.
Becket Law says that the university had claimed the Christian student group was in violation of its nondiscrimination policy, despite allowing other religious groups to select faith-compliant leaders, and even encouraging other groups — such as fraternities and sororities — to select leaders based on other characteristics covered by its nondiscrimination policy.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recognized that selective enforcement of the school’s policy is discrimination that violates the First Amendment, stating, “administrators at the University of Iowa discriminated against religious student groups.”
“To satisfy the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, a law or policy must be both neutral and generally applicable,” the court wrote in its ruling. “A policy is not generally applicable if it is underinclusive — in other words, if exemptions are made for secular but not religious reasons.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recognized that selective enforcement of the school’s policy is discrimination that violates the First Amendment, stating, “administrators at the University of Iowa discriminated against religious student groups. To satisfy the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, a law or policy must be both neutral and generally applicable,” the court wrote. “A policy is not generally applicable if it is under-inclusive — if exemptions are made for secular but not religious reasons.”
Christian-haters' aggressiveness is out of control.....and keeps escalating to dangerous levels.
These arrogant people seem to "get off" on bullying, and relegating those of us not a member of “Club Lib” to powerlessness.
REALTY CHECK The U.S. Dept of Education, and many mental health professionals, define bullying as repeated aggression,
over time, involving using an imbalance of power, and calculated acts to exclude people (cancel culture).
The bully repeatedly uses status to exert power and to hurt bullying targets....includes use of harassment, rumor mongering, threatening anyone who supports their targets....and other forms of intimidation.
While state laws have little consistency in their definition of bullying, we would do well to change laws
to make Christian-hating bullying......and other manifestations like cancel culture .......a punishable crime.
Alleged President Joe Biden has embarked on a revolutionary program to replace constitutional freedoms with a new social justice agenda. Supporting the radical agenda is his defense secretary Lloyd Austin, whose top priority is to politicize the military to eliminate “extremists.”
REALITY CHECK So, what happens when the hard left takes control of the government of a great democracy and decides that the desired social revolution requires the destruction of conservative institutions and leaders, and then institutes aggressive policies to expel conservatives from the military? We have a good answer when we look at France from 1899 to 1914 when hard-left governments were in power.
France was fairly evenly divided between left and right in the three decades after the demise of the Second Empire and the founding of the Third Republic during the Franco-Prussian War. The military officer corps was mostly from the conservative middle class with a considerable number coming from the old aristocracy. In 1890 more than 20% of the cadets at some of the elite military academies came from the old aristocracy and a high percentage of Army officers were educated in Catholic schools. However, the Army also had many liberal supporters of the Republic in the officer corps and republican reforms in the 1880s had greatly benefitted the French Army by setting higher officer education standards and funding unit training.
Through the 1890s the French left increased its position in the National Assembly and in 1899 the Left Bloc, a coalition dominated by the hard left, formed the government.
Top leftist political leaders wanted to use their power to utterly break the power of the conservative half of France, which meant going after two key institutions: The Catholic Church and the military officer corps. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
SSSSSSic ‘em, Lord !
“And it will take the University about 5 minutes...”
If that doesn’t work, it’s on to the Supreme Court where the Leftists Justices (including some newly appointed Justices) will ensure the college prevails.
Ping
This is the most important part:
“ A federal appeals court has ruled that university officials who kicked BLinC off campus because of its faith can be held PERSONALLY accountable for the harm they caused...”
The first step in stopping this kind of action. If the university pays, the employees don’t care, but if the employees responsible for these decisions are required to pay, that might slow this trend down.
Appealing this decision is going to go nowhere. The present USSC recently ruled that government agents can be held personally liable for discriminating against a person because of his religious beliefs, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit based their ruling on the USSC case. This will still take a while, but religious people can now bring the pain, and it's going to be glorious to watch it unfold! I can't emphasize enough on how impactful this is. It's one thing to have their insurance carrier pay the money, it's quite another when it comes of THIEIR own personal pockets!
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously You May Sue Government Agents for Damages When They Violate Your Individual Rights"
It's one thing to have insurance carriers payout, it's quite another when it comes out of THEIR own pockets... (h/t Enterprise)
“The present USSC recently ruled that government agents can be held personally liable...”
Hallelujah.
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