Posted on 04/27/2012 9:23:36 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
wow.
I’m going to go demand to be put in charge of the Muslim group. :)
Slooooooly the frog in the water is being boil to death.
This school is a state school and exists by statute, correct? If so, a simple vote of the legislature to eliminate all funding, or the school itself, should be threatened. Which party controls the legislature?
Right?
I don’t see the point in telling a Christian group they can’t have Christian bylaws. Who but a Christian would want to join such a thing.
If this is the same case I’ve been following, I’m not sure why CLS is not naming the group— it’s already been publicly stated that it’s the local Intervarsity Christian Fellowship chapter. They’re an Evangelical Protestant parachurch group, and the officials at Vandy have been lying to them from day one.
Further info: https://www.facebook.com/VUReligiousFreedom
“This school is a state school and exists by statute, correct? “
No
The private university, located in Nashville, Tenn.
And has been rank liberal for many years. Too many kalifornians infested it.
The good news is this: Many Vanderbilt alumni (who are continually being dunned for more money) have made it clear that they will contribute nothing further, until and unless Vanderbilt rescinds this rancid, politically correct policy.
The admin is right, a “personal commitment to Jesus Christ” is a little weak. I suggest replacing the phrase with “a life lived for the glory of the triune God with an absolute love and devotion to Him including striving to love Him with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength and an acknowledgement that all things exist by Christ, for Him and to Him, He has all power and authority and is their all in all”. -— Yes that is much better!
Much better.
I would suggest that in order to be a member of the Christian Club, prospective members should only be required to sign a statement of agreement with the larger Westminster Confession. Chances are that none of the Liberal Professors and Administrators would ever be able to decipher the underlying theme that this would require a REAL personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
While I subscribe to the WCF and the catechisms, it would eliminate baptists, self-aware Lutherans and most Presbyterians.
This is what Vanderbilt wrote to the head of the Muslim Brotherhood Chapter:
“Your constitution says that a member must have a personal commitment to Mohammed and to jihad.
Initially, we asked that those words be removed.
Since you have threatened to cut off our heads and sell our children into slavery, we have decided that it is absolutely OK to keep that requirement in your student chapter constitution.
Carry on.”
OK, then the Shorter Westminster Confession. :-). Something with some teeth. Something that will confound the "wise."
That would make sense if it were a "Calvinist" club. But any "Christian" Club that would require members to sign the Westminster Confession would make about 80% of Christians ineligible for membership. Catholics wouldn't sign any document that declares the Pope is the Antichrist, and that the Roman Catholic mass is a form of idolatry. That makes as much sense as having an "Computer club" that forbids members to buy non-Apple products.
Which 1s more important, religious freedom or non-discrimination?
There will always be discrimination of some sort or another. Can I join the university woman’s softball team, since there is no men’s softball team. Can I join a sorority, if I am a guy? Can I use the men’s restroom if I am a woman? Can the Catholic group be forced to accept a Hindu as its president?
Not to mention Catholics, Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, and various other non-Calvinist protestants. In other words, the vast majority of practicing Christians would not be allowed to join such a "Christian" club.
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