No evangelical exclusionism on campus?

Mark Silk | Jun 10, 2014

My good RNS buddy David Gibson delivered himself of a little snark this morning in re: that “campus PC virus shutting down Christian groups because they want their leaders to be, well, Christian. I mean, that’s outrageous. Right?”

Let’s see.

As Michael Paulson reviews the situation today’s New York Times, the issue has to do with the right of institutions of higher learning, public as well as private, to insist that sponsored student organizations adhere to the institution’s non-discrimination standards. Their position is based the Supreme Court’s decision in Christian Legal Society (2010), which permitted the University of California’s law school to deny recognition to a student religious group that excluded gays. It’s evangelical student groups that don’t want to go along.

Most of us would, I think, agree that colleges and universities should be able to deny sponsorship to religious groups that discriminate on some grounds — if not against gays then against African-Americans or Asians. On the other hand, some sponsored groups necessarily discriminate: You don’t get to belong to an honor society just because you want to.

http://marksilk.religionnews.com/2014/06/10/evangelical-exclusionism-campus/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/us/colleges-and-evangelicals-collide-on-bias-policy.html?hp&_r=0