May 15, 2012
Last week, Tennessee legislators sent a message to Vanderbilt University: Religious liberty matters. Large majorities in both houses passed a bill to prohibit the school from interfering in the ability of student groups to select their own leaders and members, define their own doctrines and resolve their own disputes--or Vanderbilt risks losing $24 million in state funding.... http://online.wsj....
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Apr 16, 2012
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, the House Education Committee approved House Bill 3576. The bill, brought to the legislature by our legislative arm, Family Action of Tennessee, will ensure that Tennessee's public colleges and universities cannot discriminate against religious student groups. But with Vanderbilt University collecting $24 million of your state tax dollars, some state legislators ar...
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Apr 16, 2012
This year, every incoming freshman read a work by Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, which is ironic given the current debate about Vanderbilt's policy forbidding campus religious organizations from ensuring that student leaders share the group's creedal commitments. Gomes, Harvard's long-time Plummer professor of Christian morals and the Pusey minister of Memorial Church, was an openly gay, black Baptist prea...
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Apr 10, 2012
Why is Vanderbilt University forcing student groups to abandon their beliefs -- calling bigoted those who want their leaders to subscribe to their principles. Vanderbilt now demands these groups adopt a code of political correctness or be forced off campus. Now it's up to alumni to use their leverage. Call Board of Trust Members John Ingram and Orrin Ingram now. Tell them you won't give Vanderb...
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Apr 7, 2012
DAVID FRENCH -- For some time now, I've been engaged in the fight for religious liberty at Vanderbilt University, where one of the South's (formerly?) great educational institutions has decided to wage a rather strange war on "discrimination." Like many universities before it, Vanderbilt is trying to open Christian student groups to leadership by non-Christians, and they're doing so in the name of ...
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Apr 7, 2012
DANIEL JACKSON -- A Christian student group said this week that it will not apply to be recognized as an official club at Vanderbilt University because of the school policy making it mandatory that it accept nonbelievers as members - or even officers - of the organization... Continue reading... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/catholic-club-puts-faith-above-vanderbilt-policy/ ...
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Apr 7, 2012
On January 19, I had the honor of introducing Dr. Carol M. Swain to the audience attending The Areopagus Forum. Professor Swain is considered by many to be the boldest spokesperson on behalf of Christianity in the academy today. She has issued a clarion call to Americans to stand up and speak out against anti-Christian bigotry... Continue reading.... http://www.theareopagus.org/blog/2012/03/ca...
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Apr 7, 2012
THE AREOPAGUS -- For some time now, Vanderbilt University officials have been scrambling to downplay their hostility to religious liberty by claiming there is nothing to be concerned about. They insist they are "merely enforcing pre-existing rules," but that is a ruse. They contend that it will be "business as usual." Professor Carol Swain and other standing against school officials are not swayed ...
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Apr 7, 2012
INSIDE VANDY -- This year, every incoming freshman read a work by Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, which is ironic given the current debate about Vanderbilt's policy forbidding campus religious organizations from ensuring that student leaders share the group's creedal commitments... Continue reading.... http://www.insidevandy.com/opinion/article_b6af8340-63c1-11e1-8e77-001a4bcf6878.html?utm_source=dlvr.it...
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Apr 7, 2012
ONENEWSNOW -- A respected and ideologically diverse panel challenged one another this week in a debate on freedom of speech at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention in Nashville... Continue reading... http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1542888...
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