"A lot has changed since many of us were on a college campus. What was once celebrated as a marketplace of ideas has now become a place where only university-approved concepts and speech are tolerated. This does not bode well for our children and grandchildren who are forced to either comply with university demands or put their futures at risk.
That's why we're so thankful for brave young people like Robert Dunn. Robert is a student at Iowa State University. He is also a Christian and the president and founder of the campus' politically conservative student group ISU Young Americans for Freedom.
When the university announced a new mandatory training on the school's "non-discrimination policies and procedures," Robert found that school policies allowed punishment of "First Amendment protected speech activities … depending on the circumstances." And student speech could be deemed "discriminatory harassment" if other students thought it was not a "legitimate topic," "not necessary," or lacks a "constructive purpose."
When Robert asked the school's Office of Equal Opportunity what the consequence would be if he or any other student did not sign a document certifying compliance with the policy, he was told that it would result in a hold on his graduation and subsequent review by the dean of students. A hold on his graduation? Unbelievable.
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit on Robert's behalf earlier this week. No university policy trumps the First Amendment, and students like Robert cannot be silenced just because they hold religious or conservative views.
If we don't stand up to this censorship on campus, an entire generation of students will continue to be infected by this idea that bureaucrats have the power to give and take away freedom of speech on a whim. These same students will then graduate and implement this worldview in their own professional careers. We can't let that happen.
Unfortunately, this is just a snapshot of the intolerance on America's campuses. And Robert is just one student of many who are standing up to their universities and fighting for their freedom."
That's why we're so thankful for brave young people like Robert Dunn. Robert is a student at Iowa State University. He is also a Christian and the president and founder of the campus' politically conservative student group ISU Young Americans for Freedom.
When the university announced a new mandatory training on the school's "non-discrimination policies and procedures," Robert found that school policies allowed punishment of "First Amendment protected speech activities … depending on the circumstances." And student speech could be deemed "discriminatory harassment" if other students thought it was not a "legitimate topic," "not necessary," or lacks a "constructive purpose."
When Robert asked the school's Office of Equal Opportunity what the consequence would be if he or any other student did not sign a document certifying compliance with the policy, he was told that it would result in a hold on his graduation and subsequent review by the dean of students. A hold on his graduation? Unbelievable.
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit on Robert's behalf earlier this week. No university policy trumps the First Amendment, and students like Robert cannot be silenced just because they hold religious or conservative views.
If we don't stand up to this censorship on campus, an entire generation of students will continue to be infected by this idea that bureaucrats have the power to give and take away freedom of speech on a whim. These same students will then graduate and implement this worldview in their own professional careers. We can't let that happen.
Unfortunately, this is just a snapshot of the intolerance on America's campuses. And Robert is just one student of many who are standing up to their universities and fighting for their freedom."
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"Discrimination against Christians on campus continues to rise:
- Eastern Michigan University student Julea Ward was expelled from her school’s graduate counseling program because her Christian convictions would not allow her to affirm same-sex relationships.
- Dr. Kenneth Howell was a much-beloved professor at the University of Illinois. But when he presented the Catholic perspective on homosexual behavior as part of a course called "Introduction to Catholicism", a student complained and Dr. Howell was first removed from his position and later officially terminated.
- When a group of students, including Angela Little, tried to host a pro-life event at Eastern Michigan University, they were told that it was too “biased” and too “controversial,” and would not be allowed — even though other events that advocated politically correct or left-leaning viewpoints had been permitted.
The government campaign to legally and financially destroy Christian colleges that remain faithful to biblical teaching has already begun."
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"The situation has been especially grave in California. Activists there convinced their collaborators in the state legislature to propose a new law that could have dramatically damaged Christian higher education in that state … and led to similar attacks in other states. The proposed law targeted schools that practiced what the state calls “discrimination” based on religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression in both student and employee relations.
This is the kind of attack that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas warned about when the U.S. Supreme Court imposed same-sex marriage on the country last year.
For those of you who scoff at any supposed "war on religion" I ask that you look no further than the whole "Christmas" issue. President Obama, the man elected to lead our Country (and uphold and defend the Constitution--including the Bill of Rights) last year called the Annual White House Christmas Tree the "National Holiday Tree." His omission of the word Christmas was glaring to everyone.
State Capitals are being sued for allowing any mention of Christmas on their grounds as it is deemed an endorsement of a single religion--which is ludicrous.
Add in the legal attacks against small business owners who politely decline to participate in same sex marriage ceremonies, and who then have their livelihoods destroyed. Why not just go to another business? Why do people have to act vengefully when service is refused? The answer is simple...
There is a double standard when it comes to the War on Religion. Those who are offended are allowed to vehemently attack the so-called offenders, and to destroy businesses simply because of a refusal of service, even though they were kindly given the names and phone numbers of competing stores, which the offended could --and should--have easily patroned.
In this day and age of political correctness--a movement which has been destroying Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion--anyone who disagrees with the prevailing line of thinking will have their businesses destroyed, have threats of retribution thrown at them, receive death threats and numerous harassing phone calls to their place of employment, among other horrible things. How is THAT garbage allowed? How does the government turn a blind eye to these efforts of those behind the LGBT and PC movements, while blithely punishing people who stand up for their own Freedoms, as guaranteed by the Constitution?
A double standard indeed.
As I alluded to in earlier posts, this War on Religion is real, and spreading every day. The Courts in this country are demanding various religions accommodate the PC crowd on a variety of issues under duress of losing funding or Tax Exempt status from the Federal Government.
What was not so long ago a hallowed Right of the vast majority of Americans is now under legal siege by a vast minority who obviously believe that their opinions should hold sway over everyone else in the Country. This sounds a lot like why our children no longer recite The Pledge of Allegiance in our schools, why displays of the Ten Commandments have been removed from the public sphere, why children are no longer allowed to pray over lunch at school... I could go on and on.
The fact is, Freedom of Religion, so important to our Founding Fathers that they created an "inalienable right" for all citizens to cherish by including it in the First Amendment, is indeed under attack. The worst part is that the attack on the basic Right of every American--if they choose religion--is just beginning. From here, the attacks will only get worse and the Government, those who are sworn to protect the Constitution, are standing idly by while lawyers use the legal system, including the Supreme Court, to twist and nullify the First Amendment into something it was never intended to be.
Our First President, George Washington, stated, "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled upon by individuals."
If this issue concerns you as much as it does me, PLEASE, Call, Write or Email you elected Senators or Representatives on bothy the State and National levels. Demand that they protect our First Amendment Rights! This Country was founded on the ideas of personal freedoms. Activists today would have that mean 'freedoms as they see fit, and NOT as it is intended to be.'
Please, do something, or sit back and watch your personal freedoms continue to erode in favor of politically correct thinking and living, as those behind all of this twisting of the Bill of Rights into nothing it should be resemble so that a vast minority of citizens can feel comfortable in their everyday lives, continues unabated.
It's YOUR choice. Speak up, or go like a lamb to the slaughter and watch our once great country fall under the sway of the self-serving, 'I'm more important than you' thinking that is destroying the freedoms our Founding Fathers set down in paper as inalienable rights that all men should live by.
This is the kind of attack that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas warned about when the U.S. Supreme Court imposed same-sex marriage on the country last year.
The state is essentially saying to Christian colleges and universities, “Abandon what the Bible
teaches, or we will shut you down!”
Worse, if California had succeeded in punishing Christian colleges for upholding Christian moral teaching, the effort could have quickly spread to other states."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------teaches, or we will shut you down!”
For those of you who scoff at any supposed "war on religion" I ask that you look no further than the whole "Christmas" issue. President Obama, the man elected to lead our Country (and uphold and defend the Constitution--including the Bill of Rights) last year called the Annual White House Christmas Tree the "National Holiday Tree." His omission of the word Christmas was glaring to everyone.
State Capitals are being sued for allowing any mention of Christmas on their grounds as it is deemed an endorsement of a single religion--which is ludicrous.
Add in the legal attacks against small business owners who politely decline to participate in same sex marriage ceremonies, and who then have their livelihoods destroyed. Why not just go to another business? Why do people have to act vengefully when service is refused? The answer is simple...
There is a double standard when it comes to the War on Religion. Those who are offended are allowed to vehemently attack the so-called offenders, and to destroy businesses simply because of a refusal of service, even though they were kindly given the names and phone numbers of competing stores, which the offended could --and should--have easily patroned.
In this day and age of political correctness--a movement which has been destroying Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion--anyone who disagrees with the prevailing line of thinking will have their businesses destroyed, have threats of retribution thrown at them, receive death threats and numerous harassing phone calls to their place of employment, among other horrible things. How is THAT garbage allowed? How does the government turn a blind eye to these efforts of those behind the LGBT and PC movements, while blithely punishing people who stand up for their own Freedoms, as guaranteed by the Constitution?
A double standard indeed.
As I alluded to in earlier posts, this War on Religion is real, and spreading every day. The Courts in this country are demanding various religions accommodate the PC crowd on a variety of issues under duress of losing funding or Tax Exempt status from the Federal Government.
What was not so long ago a hallowed Right of the vast majority of Americans is now under legal siege by a vast minority who obviously believe that their opinions should hold sway over everyone else in the Country. This sounds a lot like why our children no longer recite The Pledge of Allegiance in our schools, why displays of the Ten Commandments have been removed from the public sphere, why children are no longer allowed to pray over lunch at school... I could go on and on.
The fact is, Freedom of Religion, so important to our Founding Fathers that they created an "inalienable right" for all citizens to cherish by including it in the First Amendment, is indeed under attack. The worst part is that the attack on the basic Right of every American--if they choose religion--is just beginning. From here, the attacks will only get worse and the Government, those who are sworn to protect the Constitution, are standing idly by while lawyers use the legal system, including the Supreme Court, to twist and nullify the First Amendment into something it was never intended to be.
Our First President, George Washington, stated, "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled upon by individuals."
If this issue concerns you as much as it does me, PLEASE, Call, Write or Email you elected Senators or Representatives on bothy the State and National levels. Demand that they protect our First Amendment Rights! This Country was founded on the ideas of personal freedoms. Activists today would have that mean 'freedoms as they see fit, and NOT as it is intended to be.'
Please, do something, or sit back and watch your personal freedoms continue to erode in favor of politically correct thinking and living, as those behind all of this twisting of the Bill of Rights into nothing it should be resemble so that a vast minority of citizens can feel comfortable in their everyday lives, continues unabated.
It's YOUR choice. Speak up, or go like a lamb to the slaughter and watch our once great country fall under the sway of the self-serving, 'I'm more important than you' thinking that is destroying the freedoms our Founding Fathers set down in paper as inalienable rights that all men should live by.
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