Lawsuit May Redefine Discrimination on Campus

Fox News ^ | 1/7/03 | Wendy McElroy

[ladysusan]

A federal lawsuit filed on Dec. 30 will determine whether Rutgers University can de facto ban Christian student groups. It may set national policy.

On campuses across North America, Christian student groups are being ordered to either accept leaders who violate their beliefs or lose the official "recognition" that allows them access to university funding and facilities.

[friendly]

The queer mafia (their term, not mine) has a coordinated national strategy to use endless litigation to destroy all oposition. The Christians as always must be destroyed.

[gg188]

Thanks for posting this.

I predict that feminist groups will never have to admit males or anyone they wish not to; gay groups won't have to admit straights, black groups won't have to admit whites...etc. BUT---BUT---I predict CHRISTIAN groups will be forced to end their "discrimination" or be forced off campus and eventually underground in all of America. I don't think this is exactly a daring prediction.

"Hate speech" laws are open to the interpretation of future courts to include the Bible and Christian beliefs as hate speech (just as "gay rights" laws are open to interpretation by future courts to include the right to sodomize boys, which is inevitable.)

In 50 years (IF there is an America in 50 years), if a politician suggests he supported a ban on abortion or some other Christian belief or Christian candidate 50 years earlier, he will be universally deemed to be unfit for public office just as Lott has been judged for seeming to suggest his support for some presidential candidate of 50+ years ago.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

So let me get this straight. The notion that Christian groups should have the same rights as liberal on-campus organizations is a new and radical concept. Gee, and people wonder why I think the liberal education establishment is so screwed up and misguided.

[tahiti]

"Several court precedents have found that freedom to exclude is part and parcel of "freedom of association." Although that phrase does not occur within the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions have protected freedom of association as an aspect of the First Amendment's protection of speech, assembly, petition for the redress of grievances, and the establishment of religion."

The "freedom of association" is a right that emanates from the 9th amendment:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

The right to "exclude" and/or "discriminate" emanates from the 9th amendment as well.

Your government, on private property, cannot enact laws to the contrary.

If Rutgers is a private university, they are free and have the liberty to exclude and discriminate to their hearts content.

[Bogolyubski]

You're right. To quote David Horowitz: "With the left, the 'agenda' [e.g. non-discrimination against women, for example] is never the actual agenda." [The complete destruction of Judeo-Christian civilzation, destruction of family life, etc.]" These people are a cancer - a malignancy that is eating us away from within. They are a far more serious threat than Islam ever could be. At least Islam, murderous as it is, faces us as an honest and forthright foe. They wish to conquer us and install an Islamic society - and they bluntly say so. The left, by contrast, with its multitude of poisonous tentacles, is parasitical - falsely claiming they just wish to improve society in some minor way while using our own judical, political and economic systems to destroy the foundations of civilzation. I'm really begining to wonder if this religion - and that's what it is, a new religion, actually a counterfeit version of Christianity - is the "mark of the beast" that the scriptures warn us of.