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No freedom for Christians on campus
Mike Adams writes in a column at TownHall.com about an anti-Christian movement by the administration at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Adams, using memos obtained under public records laws, shows that UNC has engaged in a systematic practice to force orthodox Christian student groups to compromise their beliefs and allow non-Christians and those who don’t subscribe to their beliefs to become members and even elected officers. Of course, the underlying reason was homosexuality. At one point, the university tried to force InterVarsity Christian Fellowship off-campus for refusing to go along with the arm-twisting.
As a result of negative publicity generated by the indispensable Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (http://www.thefire.org), the threat against IVCF was rescinded in a letter written by Chancellor Moeser. In the letter, Moeser said that the conflict between the school’s diversity policies and the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion was “not a simple matter.“
Actually, it is a very simple matter. The First Amendment (found in the United States Constitution) trumps the “diversity policies” found in the handbooks of state-funded institutions of higher learning. Most of us learned this simple principle in our high school civics classes. Of course, university administrators often pretend that they don’t understand basic principles that interfere with their efforts to promote “diversity” and “multi-culturalism.“
In other words, for liberals, the First Amendment is to be used only for the purpose of marginalizing religion and never to allow it to promote its own beliefs. Religion can never be promoted for its own sake, especially if it is traditionally orthodox and doesn’t sanction modern standards of sexual immorality. “Freedom for me, but not thee,“ is the motto on many college campuses.
And that goes for any form of minority speech, i.e. conservative speech. If you dare to speak out on your opinion, at best you are shouted down and at worst violence is done to you or your property. There are several conservative groups which have compiled statistics and reports on systematic pressure from students and administrators against those who espouse unpopular or minority views on campus. Sorry folks, but those are just the kind of views that the First Amendment was designed to protect. Free speech trumps liberal ideology. But who would expect a bunch of highly educated academics to understand the basics of American civics?
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