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Court to decide whether campus evangelism a crime
One News Now ^ | November 23, 2008 | Charlie Butts

Posted on 11/23/2008 12:24:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The so-called "free-speech code" of Yuba Community College District is under federal court scrutiny.

California student, Ryan Dozier, decided to spend some time on campus sharing his faith and handing out tracts to fellow students, generating conversations about Christianity. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Heather Hacker comments on the situation.

"A campus police officer came over and told him that if he continued to do so without a permit that he would be possibly expelled or arrested, and so Ryan stopped immediately," she explains.

Hacker says Dozier thought the case was closed, but he was apparently mistaken. "Three weeks later he got a certified letter from the president of the college stating that his actions were the subject of a campus crime report," she adds. "Last time I checked, sharing your faith on a public college campus was not a crime."

But the letter informed him he could face expulsion if he shared his faith on campus again. ADF filed suit, and a federal judge has ordered the college to suspend enforcement of its highly restricted free speech policies until the lawsuit is resolved.


TOPICS: Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; antireligious; churchandstate; college; education; freedomofspeech; judiciary; politicalcorrectness; satanapprovedschool
The academy is over the top.
1 posted on 11/23/2008 12:24:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now if it was Muslim literature .....


2 posted on 11/23/2008 12:25:55 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer
"Now if it was Muslim literature ....."

They'd make the interns, work/studies, campus police and instructors help pass them out, while a crew sets up foot washing stations and passes out burquas to the female students...

3 posted on 11/23/2008 12:28:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: SkyDancer
"Now if it was Muslim literature"

They'd make him Honorary Chancellor of the month???

4 posted on 11/23/2008 12:40:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obama - not just an empty suit - - A Suit Bomb invading the White House)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Recruiting “homosexuals” is still okay though. Probably even encouraged.


5 posted on 11/23/2008 12:41:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction", read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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No doubt ....


6 posted on 11/23/2008 12:42:11 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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"Three weeks later he got a certified letter from the president of the college stating that his actions were the subject of a campus crime report," she adds. "Last time I checked, sharing your faith on a public college campus was not a crime."

Ping to read and follow later

7 posted on 11/23/2008 1:06:36 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This will only get worse left unchecked. Now is the time for every Christian to be filled with boldness.

The local churches there should all be getting together to make sure that campus has a car full of people passing out tracts and bottles of water and friendly smiles from now until the college caves. Those administrators would look really dumb arresting dozens of people, and it would show them for the bigots that they really are.


8 posted on 11/23/2008 1:09:37 PM PST by Sparticus (Libs, they're so open minded that their brains leaked out.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course he was within his rights. This won’t last long in the court system.


9 posted on 11/23/2008 1:20:46 PM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is happening all over the country

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

10 posted on 11/23/2008 1:56:04 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

The libs, ACLU and the Muslims are working 24/7 to wipe out every vestige of Christianity in America.
Western Civilization, whether they like it or not, is based upon the morality outlined in the Bible, and it has been our adherence to this morality that has determined the strength of our civilization.
Destroy Christianity and you destroy America.

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11 posted on 11/27/2008 4:30:20 AM PST by patriot08
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There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance.
Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings forth a volley of ‘racist’ from the left-wing Democrat crowd.

Rich Carroll
from ‘The Jihad Candidate’
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12 posted on 11/27/2008 4:40:14 AM PST by patriot08
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