Posted on 02/01/2012 3:13:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
So much for “freedom of association”. The government gets to pick your friends and associates.
membership in registered student organizations is open to everyone and that everyone, if desired, has the opportunity to seek leadership positions.
Great! I’m a Buddhist, but I can be a Mullah? Woo Hoo! To my credit I have big, dark eyebrows and I can look like a SOB. Just need the beehive hat.
many college ‘religion’ professors are anti-Christian bigots these days.
“We will NOT comply!”
I`m quite certain that edict only applies to Christian groups. Highly doubtful muslims have to submit to the same requirement.
>>So much for freedom of association. The government gets to pick your friends and associates.<<
Vandy is not a government. However it is subsidized by taxpayer funds (financial aid) and should be required to operate within the confines of the USC.
But there is no such legal requirement and it can be as stupidly unfair as it wants. Students can choose to attend or not, depending on their individual proclivities.
Isn't a policy a statement of certain principles founded on beliefs? The hypocrisy is soooooooo apparent.
>>Great! Im a Buddhist, but I can be a Mullah? Woo Hoo! To my credit I have big, dark eyebrows and I can look like a SOB. Just need the beehive hat.
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The beehive hat is for Sikhs. You need a rag on your head to be a mullah.
With college degrees costing a lifetime of repayment and many only netting manger jobs at McDonald’s it seems hardly worthwhile to subject oneself to their politically correct bullshit.
Go to a trade school.
This will first dilute, then divert, than disband religious based groups.
Look for takeovers not from other religions, but from the secular left.
“The beehive hat is for Sikhs. You need a rag on your head to be a mullah.”
I was thinking more of the hornet’s nest, sorry. Somewhere between the pull-starts and the push-starts.
“Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose $1 million gift helped establish Vanderbilt in 1873 (largest charitable gift to that date), also gave large gifts to various churches in his latter days. I wonder if his RPM is 4 or 5 digits with this decision.
Modern liberal academia does not pray to God but to their substitute multiculturalism creed. Main stream values that have been the bed-rock of this nation will be demolished.
Government agencies cannot discriminate. If the university decides that political expression and student activities are central enough to its mission to receive government grants, than it also must permit that expression to any group which is not contrary to that purpose.
However, Vanderbilt is a private university. It does not receive any direct payments from the government, except, of course, there may be certain programs which receive certain grants. Financial aid is paid to the student, to spend how they see fit within the parameters of the grant or loan; it’s no more “government-subsidized” than any grocery store which accepts food stamps.
>>its no more government-subsidized than any grocery store which accepts food stamps.<<
Good point.
IIRC
Charlotte Iserbyt on youtube knows what’s happened to education. She was the senior Policy advisor to Ronald Reagan for Education.
Treasonous Marxist globalist idiots on parade . . . basically.
Like most large universities, Vandy receives tons of money in federal research grants for everything under the sun. They would be just another liberal-arts college without them.
The truth is that Vanderbilt has a rigid orthodoxy which nobody is permitted to question, which is that homosexuality and any other form of sexual conduct must be approved of and treated equally with married heterosexual behavior.
If your group holds religious beliefs that conflict with that orthodoxy, keep them under your hat and forget about living them out if you want your group to continue to be under the aegis of the university.
Denying rights under the guise of increasing rights and “fairness.”
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