Posted on 12/10/2015 12:27:21 PM PST by Graybeard58
The LGBT movement has achieved many notable victories this year, securing marriage equality, major attacks on conversion therapy and more. But one Christian university just demonstrated why activists and allies must not become complacent: Carson-Newman University, a private Southern Baptist college in Tennessee, is now legally allowed to ban students whose "lifestyles" are interpreted as an affront to their Christian philosophy: gay students and others included.
These "strengthened" rights include not only the ability to ban gay students, but also unwed mothers, women who've had abortions and even pregnant students, according to WVLT. And Carson-Newman is hardly the only college now able to do so: The university's legal counsel filed similar waivers for many other Christian schools, according to the same report, and 30 others are similarly exempt from Title IX.
The ban. "This is who we are as a Christian university," Dr. Randall O'Brien, president of the university, told CBS affiliate WVLT on Monday. "These are our religious principles. And in a changing world, we would like to reaffirm that this is who we are and who we intend to be."
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Good for them! Hope they don’t cave.
The queers have loaded the bus and are heading that way. Loretta Lynch is driving.
Hoorah for the good guys! Finally a step towards sanity.
How many white students attend University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard, Virginia Union, Norfolk State, Hampton, Grambling, etc.?
How many Universities trumpet their “diversity,” AND proactively take steps to include (and therefore exclude) in their admission students based on:
— race
— gender
— financial need
— foreign origin
— religion
— special needs, learning disability
— special needs, physical handicap
— extracurricular interests
— community involvement
— sexual orientation
— everything else under the sun other than academic merit
They didn’t win any right, they always had the right, the government is just begrudgingly recognizing it.
Freedom should NEVER have to be begged for or explained to anyone.
Thank God!
Well stated.
Well duh! We are CHRISTIAN. We have standards that are different then the culture.
Why would a queer even try to go there unless it was to harass the school?
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