{"id":10807,"date":"2012-02-09T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:39:33","slug":"are-u-s-colleges-hostile-to-christian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2012\/02\/are-u-s-colleges-hostile-to-christian-students","title":{"rendered":"Are U.S. colleges hostile to Christian students?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Christian kids on U.S. college campuses facing open hostility and discrimination because of their faith? Supreme Court Justice Justice Samuel Alito seems to think so. So does U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Daniel Ripple \u2013 and human rights attorneys Gregory Baylor and Jordan Lorence.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writing the minority opinion in a case involving Christian students\u2019 rights, Alito warned 18 months ago against the majority\u2019s ruling, saying it would be used as a \u201cweapon\u201d against Christians in U.S. colleges.<\/p>\n

When Alito was dissenting in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez,<\/em> he cautioned that not only was the majority\u2019s decision seriously flawed, but that it would be used\u00a0as a club\u00a0against groups with viewpoints that are unpopular among the vast majority of college administrators \u2013 such as Christian faith.<\/p>\n

He warned that kids in religiously and politically conservative groups — which college administrators disfavor — would be targeted, notes Robert Shibley writing for National Review<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez <\/em>was a \u201csharply divided and startlingly wrongheaded decision,\u201d agrees Shibley. \u201cThose concerned about religious liberty on campus have known that the fallout was on its way. At Vanderbilt University, it has arrived \u2014 and it\u2019s as bad as anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Martinez,\u201d he writes, \u201cthe Court determined that public institutions like the University of California\u2019s Hastings College of the Law could require all student groups \u2014 even those based on shared belief, such as religious and political organizations \u2014 to admit members and even leaders without regard to their beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cGroups like the Christian Legal Society, whose constitution required students to have traditional Christian beliefs (such as in Christ\u2019s bodily resurrection) and morals (no sexual activity outside heterosexual marriage), could be required to remove those provisions from their<\/p>\n

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