This is an issue that has repeatedly arisen at other universities but Vanderbilt is a private university so is not bound by the 1st Amendment -- and may therefore be able to maintain its absurd policy. The real agenda, of course, is to force acceptance of homosexuals onto Christian groups.
"Is Vanderbilt University flirting with the suppression of religion? Yes, according to Carol Swain, a professor at Vanderbilt’s Law School.
Specifically, Swain is referring to four Christian student groups being placed on 'provisional status' after a university review found them to be in non-compliance with the school’s nondiscrimination policy.
Vanderbilt says the student organizations cannot require that leaders share the group’s beliefs, goals and values."
Carol Swain is CLS’s faculty advisor. She insists the university has gone way beyond political correctness with its actions and demands. “It seems reasonable”, she told me, “to require that leaders share the beliefs of the organizations that they seek to lead.” She sees this as part of a larger problem at liberal-leaning universities across the nation. She says, “I see it as part of a larger attack on religious freedom that’s taking place across the country – particularly when it comes to conservative groups.”
Vanderbilt officials refused to be interviewed, and instead released a statement saying in part "We are committed to making our campus a welcoming environment for all of our students."
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A welcome for all students except Christian ones, apparently
The simple solution would of course be for Christian groups to meet off-campus. Any nearby church would probably oblige with a room for meetings.
That would put the university administration's nose out of joint too. A university with no Christian groups on campus would look odd and that might hamper their recruitment of students. It would certainly make their assertions about being "welcoming" look hollow. Putting up posters and placards at appropriate times saying: "Vanderbilt U does not welcome Christians" would really drive that nail home.
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These schools give lip service to "diversity" but you can't have diversity without differences in points of view. If everyone has to follow the party line, in this case the school's, diversity is non existent.
I think Jon's suggestion is the perfect response.
I am sure you can hear salat over the loudspeakers on campus and i imagine a minaret is in the planning stage.
I attended Vanderbilt in the eighties. Even then, it was a measure of anyting goes... except Christianity of course.
I think the suggestion of every Christian group abandon the campus, and then make an issue of it, would reap great rewards for the much maligned groups. I happen to know that there are any number of facilities within 50 yards of the campus that would be willing to uphold the mission.
I think it is way past time for true, Christian organizations to start exercising their influence. It is generally against their nature. However, now is the time to start upholding all those tenets to which such groups pay lip service.
Let the media and college search teams get wind of Christian groups deserting the campus en masse and see what happens. It would be epic.
Does the university have any Muslim groups? Do those groups permit homosexuals? Islam abhors homosexuality more then Christianity with a homosexual being subject to death under Sharia Law. Does the University likewise chastise its Muslim groups?
Serious Christians should go to Christian colleges, and serious muslims should go to muslim colleges, etc., etc. - and so confine all their respective religiosity to themselves and away from others who aren't interested.
3:08 AM - your personally abusive comment reveals you as a bigot on several levels!!
By george he has hit the nail on the head christina student are being pursicuted by the PC crowd and leftists philistines
Maybe colleges should not only provide areas for sports teams to "battle" but designated areas for over-opinionated student groups to shout abuse at each other and wave their placards at each other. Then after such episodes of cathartic exercise they might go back and study (perhaps). Meanwhile less obsessed students can get on with their proper activities unmolested.
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