Posted on 03/01/2015 8:26:15 PM PST by lowbridge
When Cal Poly Sal Luis Obispo hosts its annual Open House this April, during which campus clubs typically greet and recruit prospective visiting students, one longtime mainstay at the university will be conspicuously absent: Cru.
The Christian club will not be allowed to set up a table and pass out fliers, or meet and greet guests. It’s the same at Chico State, where Cru will not be allowed to showcase itself during the school’s annual fall recruitment drive. They’ve also been forbidden from hanging up posters in freshman dorms.
Gone are the days when Christian student clubs at Cal Poly Sal Luis Obispo, Chico State – and the other 21 Cal State universities across California – are allowed to set up shop in the quad and recruit.
This school year, CSU administrators labeled campus Christian groups that refuse to allow non-Christians to lead them “discriminatory.” As a result, Christian clubs at Cal State universities that refused to change their constitutions and check boxes saying they would allow non-Christians as leaders have been officially derecognized by their campus communities.
They’ve been scrubbed from campus websites and directories. They cannot take part in events that help campus clubs recruit new members and gain visibility. They are charged a more expensive, outsider fee to rent rooms on campus – straining their already tight coffers. They’ve lost a chance to receive a portion of student fees collected to help clubs on campuses thrive.
All these changes have hurt.
For Cru – one of three Christian clubs derecognized from Cal Poly and Chico State’s campuses this school year – participation has dwindled or outright plunged.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Diversity has limits, it seems, in the academic setting.
Way back when I was in jr. high, Campus Crusade for Christ came to our school. As far as I know, no one complained. I am sure the teachers welcomed them as a calming influence on crazy teens. Jr. high is a confusing time. Would not want to go through it again.
Would the Black Congressional Caucus let a white person lead them?
excellent.
So how’s the muslim LGBTQ community campus clubs working out?
They are claiming that the Christian groups discriminate against gays and people of other faiths or no faith at all.
Freedom of association was established in the constitution to prevent this kind of abuse. But...we got rid of that freedom during desegregation. Now power and the courts can order associations of groups which ends religious freedom.
The Muslims can have an exclusive Muslim group and blacks, Hispanics, etc. may have exclusive groups, but whites and Christians are forbidden exclusive groups.
I often wonder just how many people do that - lie or stretch the truth to gain power or position in churches or Christian groups.
When my children were little, I had them involved in a Christian children’s group. At the time, I was not religious myself, but I was up front with the leaders about that. I helped wherever I was needed, but I never offered to assume responsibility in a leadership position. I assumed the people in leadership for that organization were “true” Christians. Then, at one meeting, I found out that most of them were not Christian at all; they were playing the part just to have access and control. That was a wake up call, to say the least.
I agree. It just wouldn’t make sense.
it is amazing what we see when we pull away the curtain. it is unfortunate that a lot of times it is the wrong people that assume authority over people because the right people never want that authority
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