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Religious Universities Pressured to Secularize
Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 17, 2016 | Kallina Crompton

Posted on 05/17/2016 8:27:47 AM PDT by Academiadotorg

Since the Supreme Court decision on marriage, the government has put many religious universities on the "shame list" if they seek waivers that allow them to teach traditional values of marriage and sexuality without being stripped of grants or funding.

"It is sad to think how far things have come where religious institutions are now being targeted for disfavor from the government because of their views on marriage," religious liberty attorney Roger Severino said at the Heritage Foundation on April 13, 2016. Dr. Derek Halvorson, the President of Covenant College, on the panel with Severino, said "Christian colleges and universities maintain a commitment to the cultivation of virtue that other educational institutions have abandoned."

Halverson noted that Former Harvard dean Harry Lewis has said "the fundamental job of undergraduate education is to help [students] grow up, to learn who they are, to search for a larger purpose for their lives, and to leave college as better human beings."

Interestingly enough, the original Harvard shield contained two books faced up and one book faced down. The book faced down symbolized the limits of reason and the need to attain knowledge through God's revelation. Today, all three books face up. According to Severino, Harvard gradually changed over time to celebrate knowledge rather than celebrate morals. He said, "Right living and right knowing became disconnected."

Unfortunately, the goal to help students grow up and leave college as better human beings has been forgotten in today's world. Former Harvard President Derek Bok has lamented "professors are trained to transmit knowledge and skills within their chosen discipline, not to help students become more mature, morally perceptive human beings."

Stripping the identity of religious institutions would contribute to the loss of fundamental American values. Dr. Halvorson concluded, "Our country needs institutions that can serve as exemplars of an old-fashioned model of learning that cultivates in young men and women the virtue so vital to the maintenance of a republic."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aim; christiancolleges; harvard; highereducation; leftismoncampus; marriage; religion; scotus
It turns out that educators at truly religious colleges think more clearly too.
1 posted on 05/17/2016 8:27:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

Call a spade a spade. What “secularize” actually means to those who hold religion dear. It means “renounce your religion.”


2 posted on 05/17/2016 8:30:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Academiadotorg

Yes, there will be pressures to secularize.

And, marriage will be a fault line within religious denominations., As of today, mainstream religions do not recognize homosexual marriage, but secular law and many individual members of these denominations are in favor of homosexual marriage.

Recently a number of Methodist clergy staged a demonstration of being gay, and performed a same sex marriage in one of their churches.

Marriage could cause some schisms within major denominations in the years ahead.


3 posted on 05/17/2016 8:33:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Academiadotorg
Time for them all to do what Hilldale College in Michigan did:

  1. Divorce themselves completely from federal funding.
  2. Line up their own group of lenders.

Hillsdale kids actually pay lower rates of interest on their student loans than those in the federal program because they give their kids a real education, don't offer fluff degrees and, as a result, their graduates get gainful employment and have a minuscule default rate.

4 posted on 05/17/2016 8:35:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Academiadotorg

Hillsdale College remains unaffected by this nonsense because they don’t accept even a single penny of Federal money.


5 posted on 05/17/2016 8:39:51 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Gaffer
Secularizes, actually means Denier(s) of Christ and the Lord God. The end result for any and all of them will be far from pleasant.
6 posted on 05/17/2016 8:52:46 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Academiadotorg

Then do like Hillsdale and Grove City, and do NOT take Federal money.


7 posted on 05/17/2016 9:07:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Academiadotorg

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et al, were once more religious than today’s religious schools.

Now that they have been completely secularized, the left is not satisfied. They want to crush all dissent.

The left is a political Borg.


8 posted on 05/17/2016 9:08:16 AM PDT by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: Academiadotorg

The government will now tell you what religious beliefs are acceptable.

Government is your Supreme Being now.


9 posted on 05/17/2016 9:08:51 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: Academiadotorg

Before the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage were universities punished for being pro same sex marriage?

I didn’t think so.

This is government persecution.


10 posted on 05/17/2016 9:18:28 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Grove City College is one of the best Christian colleges in the country.


11 posted on 05/17/2016 9:18:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: SandRat
Denier(s) of Christ and the Lord God

And that is what it really comes down to. They deny our Lord and expect the world to go merrily on the same path. And when bad things happen they blame Him for letting the bad things happen.
12 posted on 05/17/2016 9:22:19 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Academiadotorg; All
”… if they seek waivers that allow them to teach traditional values of marriage and sexuality without being stripped of grants or funding [emphasis added]."

With all due respect Academiadotorg, please note the following.

Regarding federal grants and funding for INTRAstate schooling purposes, Thomas Jefferson had indicated the states would first need to delegate to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for such a purpose, something that the states have never done.

“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its Article I, Section 8-limited powers, intrastate schooling in this example not listed among those powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Also consider that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called LGBT “rights.”

So corrupt Congress has not only been stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, revenues that the states could be using for schooling purposes without federal government interference, but also consider the following.

Congress is also wrongly allowing the lawless Obama Administration to get away with interfering with state sovereignty by harassing intrastate schools to comply with LGBT “rights,” fictitious rights that the feds have no constitutional authority to strengthen. The corrupt Washington cartel is probably promoting politically correct LGBT rights in order to win votes from low-information voters.

What a mess! :^(

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, intrastate education in this example.

Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

13 posted on 05/17/2016 11:55:33 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: SaxxonWoods

Without fear to their personal safety, five lawyers did this to a society of over 300 million.

Such things do not happen in republics.


14 posted on 05/17/2016 1:42:33 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Academiadotorg

bump


15 posted on 05/17/2016 1:51:25 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Academiadotorg

The ‘shame” list is nothing more than left wing school yard name calling and bullying.


16 posted on 05/17/2016 2:07:08 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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