This Christian University Just Won the Right to Ban Gay Students

[Janelle2002 3,865]

This Christian University Just Won the Right to Ban Gay Students

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Julie Zeilinger 2 hours 59 minutes ago

The LGBT movement has achieved many notable victories this year, securing marriage equality, major attacks on conversion therapy and more. But one Christian university just demonstrated why activists and allies must not become complacent: Carson-Newman University, a private Southern Baptist college in Tennessee, is now legally allowed to ban students whose "lifestyles" are interpreted as an affront to their Christian philosophy: gay students and others included.

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The ban. "This is who we are as a Christian university," Dr. Randall O'Brien, president of the university, told CBS affiliate WVLT on Monday. "These are our religious principles. And in a changing world, we would like to reaffirm that this is who we are and who we intend to be."

This Christian University Just Won the Right to Ban Gay Students

Dr. Randall O'Brien Source: WVLT

O'Brien's legal counsel encouraged him to file the waiver, which exempts the school from allowing students protections usually afforded to them under Title IX. The university's president claimed doing so only "strengthen our First Amendment rights."

These "strengthened" rights include not only the ability to ban gay students, but also unwed mothers, women who've had abortions and even pregnant students, according to WVLT. And Carson-Newman is hardly the only college now able to do so: The university's legal counsel filed similar waivers for many other Christian schools, according to the same report, and 30 others are similarly exempt from Title IX.

A history of discrimination. Discrimination, particularly against gay students, has remained widespread in recent years. For example, a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student was assaulted based on her perceived sexual identity in 2010,https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-university-just-won-ban-170112556.html

Edited December 10, 2015 by Janelle2002

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

This Christian University Just Won the Right to Ban Gay Students

Mic

Julie Zeilinger 2 hours 59 minutes ago

The LGBT movement has achieved many notable victories this year, securing marriage equality, major attacks on conversion therapy and more. But one Christian university just demonstrated why activists and allies must not become complacent: Carson-Newman University, a private Southern Baptist college in Tennessee, is now legally allowed to ban students whose "lifestyles" are interpreted as an affront to their Christian philosophy: gay students and others included.

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The ban. "This is who we are as a Christian university," Dr. Randall O'Brien, president of the university, told CBS affiliate WVLT on Monday. "These are our religious principles. And in a changing world, we would like to reaffirm that this is who we are and who we intend to be."

This Christian University Just Won the Right to Ban Gay Students

Dr. Randall O'Brien Source: WVLT

O'Brien's legal counsel encouraged him to file the waiver, which exempts the school from allowing students protections usually afforded to them under Title IX. The university's president claimed doing so only "strengthen our First Amendment rights."

These "strengthened" rights include not only the ability to ban gay students, but also unwed mothers, women who've had abortions and even pregnant students, according to WVLT. And Carson-Newman is hardly the only college now able to do so: The university's legal counsel filed similar waivers for many other Christian schools, according to the same report, and 30 others are similarly exempt from Title IX.

A history of discrimination. Discrimination, particularly against gay students, has remained widespread in recent years. For example, a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student was assaulted based on her perceived sexual identity in 2010,https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-university-just-won-ban-170112556.html

I totally disagree with them, but if it's a private school and gets no tax payer money, more power to them.

The homophobic slope heads they are

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Nope. They should be sued

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Nope. They should be sued

Should a Muslim university be forced to serve pork in it's dining hall. I think not

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I totally disagree with them, but if it's a private school and gets no tax payer money, more power to them.

The homophobic slope heads they are

I agree with you. This is totally repellent but no public money is going to them, so as a private institution I don't have a say in restricting their BS. They may choose their students on their own messed-up criteria. I don't know that I'd go as far as wishing more power to them.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I agree with you. This is totally repellent but no public money is going to them, so as a private institution I don't have a say in restricting their BS. They may choose their students on their own messed-up criteria. I don't know that I'd go as far as wishing more power to them.

More power to them, does not literally mean I hope they get more power.. It's a coloquism. Like to each his own.