November 14, 2019
Don't expect it to make sense, dear readers. These things never do, except to highly-educated college professors and administrators. They go through special training, where they learn to make words mean other than they normally do.A Christian college refused to allow a display of Christian crosses to honor "abortion victims,†saying it would be "divisive,†according to email correspondence obtained by conservative and civil liberties groups.
"I didn’t think it was really going to be a problem at all,†Emily Kokot, treasurer and secretary for Young Americans for Freedom at Rocky Mountain College, told The College Fix in a phone interview.
That’s because "for the last couple of years,†the administration has allowed the campus affiliate of the Young America’s Foundation to install "a 9/11 memorial where we put flags up on the ground on the campus outside,†she said.
Instead, Dean of Student Life Brad Nason told Kokot that "we draw the line at public displays of divisive topics,†in an email referenced by Young America’s Foundation and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. (Kokot works part-time in Nason’s office.)
Pressed as to why public displays are not allowed, Nason responded that "we have effectively eliminated every student’s ability to choose to engage or not engage with that issue†if the college allows public displays. They could also imply the endorsement of the college, he wrote.
AMEN to that!"I think the idea that people can’t separate out actions of college students from actions of a college is naive,†Adam Goldstein, program officer in FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, told The Fix in a phone interview.
"I think we all know that college students engage in activism and no one is confused that institutions are enthusiastic necessarily about every protester who shows up on campus,†he said.
FIRE launched a pressure campaign against the college last week. Its auto-generated email to President Robert Wilmouth says RMC graduates "will be ill-prepared for the world after graduation if the school continues to prohibit ‘divisive’ displays and speech.â€
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"For I have come to turn ‘A man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law"
Matthew 10:35
To be a Christian college means to divide people with Christian teaching. If you focus on unity you disregard Christ. And the result?
"But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven."
Mt. 10:33
Seems to me this college will be denied in Heaven.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 15, 2019 08:56 AM (nUe4a)
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