Posted on 10/01/2025 1:52:56 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Chip Roy said Wednesday they plan to investigate a university’s decision to block a Turning Point USA event.
Their comments came in response to reports that Texas Christian University denied the student chapter’s request to host an on-campus event featuring detransitioner Chloe Cole.
“This doesn’t look like free speech to me,” Paxton wrote on X Wednesday morning. “I’m going to look into this.”
“My friend … [Chloe Cole] testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee,” Roy, R-Texas, wrote. “Expect an inquiry as to why she’s not welcomed by you … ”
Cole, who detransitioned at 16 and now speaks out against “gender-affirming care” for minors, said on X Tuesday that the university had been making its Turning Point chapter jump through “arbitrary hoops” for a “while” before ultimately denying its request for an available room.
She described the university as “cancelling” her, writing on X Tuesday, “Christian colleges (and otherwise) need to step up to keep democracy and free speech alive in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”
The event, scheduled for Oct. 7, will now be held at Birchman Baptist Church. “The show goes on, but not on campus,” Cole wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
I can see “Turning Point” assuming a different name to discuss issues, as Charlie Kirk might have done.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this the denomiation that issued the Ordination Papers of a certain Rev Jim Jones?
Not a very good judge of character, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
... As a child, Jones developed an affinity for Pentecostalism and a desire to preach. He was ordained as a Christian minister in the Independent Assemblies of God, attracting his first group of followers while participating in the Pentecostal Latter Rain movement and the Healing Revival during the 1950s. Jones's initial popularity arose from his joint campaign appearances with the movement's prominent leaders William Branham and Joseph Mattsson-Boze, and their endorsement of his ministry. Jones founded the organization that became the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1955. In 1956, he began to be influenced by Father Divine and the Peace Mission movement. Jones distinguished himself through civil rights activism, founding the Temple as a fully integrated congregation. In 1964, he joined and was ordained a minister by the Disciples of Christ; his attraction to the Disciples was largely due to the autonomy and tolerance they granted to differing views within their denomination. In 1965, Jones moved the Temple to California.
Yes. San Diego State and Drake have sites dedicated to the investigations into Jonestown.
In fact, an attorney for Mr. Jones who later defected after noticing suspicious behaviour, including having his son taken from him by the charismatic cult leader who eventually died in the mass suicide was involved in the Branch Davidian investigation. What he knew from losing his six year old son in that incident was used to investigate the Waco cult that ended with the death of that leader.
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=86629
Thanks. I knew it was something like that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.