Posted on 03/01/2023 6:00:03 PM PST by marshmallow
The Department of Education yesterday released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (full text) proposing to rescind two related rules adopted by the Trump Administration in September 2020. Those rules require that public colleges and universities which receive DOE grants (either direct grants or grants under state-administered formula grant programs) must not deny to religious student groups any of the rights, benefits, or privileges that other student groups enjoy because of the religious student organization’s beliefs, practices, policies, speech, membership standards, or leadership standards, which are informed by sincerely-held religious beliefs.
According to yesterday's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:
Some faith-based and civil rights organizations ... worried that [these rules] could be interpreted to require IHEs [institutions of higher education] to go beyond what the First Amendment mandates and allow religious student groups to discriminate against vulnerable and marginalized students....
There is nothing in the regulatory text that clarifies or guarantees that an institution may insist that such religious organizations comply with the same neutral and generally-applicable practices, policies, and membership and leadership standards that apply equally to nonreligious student organizations, including but not limited to nondiscrimination requirements.
The disparity between the language of the regulatory text and the Department’s stated intent has engendered confusion and uncertainty about what institutions must do to avoid risking ineligibility for covered Department grants....
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
This administration sucks.
No reason to do this other than being evil
Defund the DOE
I bet that does not include moslems or satanists or New Age wicca groups.
Get rid of the DOE. We did education just fine until that department was formed.
It’s been downhill ever sense.
Rescind the DOE.
Bunch of commies and groomers and pervs anyways, better off without them.
These people just run around looking for new ways to stir up crap.
That should have happened 20 years ago.
FJB and his merry band of vile monkeys.
Christians and conservatives are going to be pushed out of the public square.
Eventually, they will be hanged in the public square. All for the crime of wrong-think and speaking out against the government officials.
I used to wonder how a world could get to the point as described in Revelations. Now, I can see it pretty clearly.
Defund the DOE. Never should have had one in the first place.
Get rid of the DOE. We did education just fine until that department was formed.
It’s been downhill ever (sense)- since?
well good- rescind them- and be sued for religious discrimination!
“Wicca” is a recognized religious group in the U.S. military, and included in military chaplains’ manuals since 1970.
“New Age” is a voluminous term, wjich can be anything from the acceptance of folk fiction to extraterrestrials, to we came from Mars.
Joseph Stolen did not get 81 million legit votes.
auto correct on my phone
Nice try. Wicca is modern neopaganism with ties to environmental and New Age ideologies; hence, New Age Wicca.
Read later.
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