Vanderbilt to religious students: Are your beliefs really that important?

Daily Caller ^ | 02/01/2012 | By Robert Shibley

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[mo]

Sounds like a threat to me...

[zot]

Thanks for the culture war ping. I hope Vanderbilt is forced to retract this policy.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I hope alums will retract their giving. I had to stop sending money to Purdue when they had Bill Ayers on campus for a talk.

[dsc]

“many college ‘religion’ professors are anti-Christian bigots these days.”

Well, you and I let them go to work every day unhindered, so I don’t guess we have any room to complain.

[zot]

Yes, if enough of their alums stop giving and tell them why, that might motivate Vanderbilt to retract this policy.

[RobbyS]

What troubles me is Vanderbilt’s implication that religious beliefs are, like political ones, simply matters of opinion. That there is no truth in religion. That whether Jesus is the Son of God is a question on the same level as the constitutionality of social security.

[toothfairy86]

Until recently, Vanderbilt nursing students were required to participate in abortion procedures, or risk flunking out. The anti-abortion students sued and won...but only because Vanderbilt takes government money, which forbids them to discriminate against someone’s religious beliefs.

[johngrace]

First they came for the communists,

and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

First they came…” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as follows:

[CommerceComet]

but only because Vanderbilt takes government money, which forbids them to discriminate against someone’s religious beliefs.

Obama will fix this when he gets a chance. Acceptance of abortion must trump all rights in his mind.