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Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

…ost importantly, similarities between the religions of the world. I’ve had students tell me they intended to study world religions in college and I’ve had students long after they were in my class tell me that they’ve used their understanding of world religions in their lives. One former student said it helped her not be afraid of other religions and she did take a fresh look at her own point of view as an adult. Have there been any problems with…

Supreme Court: Law School Christian Group Can’t Exclude Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Ginsburg wrote for the majority: In requiring CLS—in common with all other student organizations—to choose between welcoming all students and forgoing the benefits of official recognition, we hold, Hastings did not transgress constitutional limitations. CLS, it bears emphasis, seeks not parity with other organizations, but a preferential exemption from Hastings’ policy. Justice Samuel Alito, not surprisingly, wrote in dissent, bemoaning the tolera…

Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…-discrimination policy, which the school denied, thus denying CLS official student organization status. In 2010, though, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the law school’s denial of official status to the group did not violate its free exercise rights. Yet the Bishops persist in claiming that this denial infringes on Christian student rights. As the ACLU’s Paul Cates noted when the case was pending before the Court in early 2010: If the court were…

Does the Multifaith Model Work?

By Jas Chana

…eople face under Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The protest caused a number of Jewish students living in the dorm to raise the spectre of anti-Semitism, saying publicly that the stunt made them feel victimized and unsafe. There was fallout beyond the campus. A particularly vitriolic article appeared in the Times of Israel and a Brandeis University student appeared on Fox News to deride the Students for Justice in Palestine for perpetuating a…

Can a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…a new topic at Morehouse,” little has changed. After the 2002 beating, gay students formed a support group, Safe Space, which Brewer belongs to. Unfortunately, the group’s total membership this year included only about five active students. In the ’80s and ’90s it was more dangerous to be openly gay and bisexual on Morehouse’s campus than it was on the streets of black neighborhoods. Jafari Sinclaire Allen, a professor at University of Texas was a…

Ironies & Bright Spots for Gays in the Christian College World

By L Marston

…of the Christian Reformed Church), devoted a section to the stories of gay students at Calvin. The student editors wrote: For those of us who are not LGBT, we hope these stories provide a glimpse into the lives of some of our brothers and sisters at Calvin. For those of us who do identify as LGBT, we want you to see that you are not alone, and the Calvin community cares deeply about you. The editors are to be commended, but Calvin, like Azusa Paci…

ACLU Defense of Religious Freedom Lost on Virginia Students

By Lauri Lebo

…ted one student. She was greeted by a round of cheers from the crowd. The students prayed and then one by one students spoke out on the reasons they wanted the Ten Commandments placed back in their school. “This is America and we can have our Ten Commandments and if they don’t like it, they can get out,” said one boy. What’s so sad is that this could be a valuable civics lesson to the district’s students. I like to see kids protesting and engagin…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…who wrote she should engage in civil disobedience received an A, the three students said. “People were appalled,” said one of the students, adding, “especially as lawyers-to-be, who are trained and licensed to practice the law—to disobey that law, that seemed completely counterintuitive to all of us.” Still, some knew what they needed to “regurgitate,” in order to get a good grade. “It was obvious by the substance of the class during the semester…

When Are You Dead? Science Just Made the Work of Religion a Bit More Difficult

By Arri Eisen

…‘thought MRI’ like patients in this study, would you consider him alive? A student answered: I’d rather pull the plug, let him die. From personal experience, I’d rather just pull the plug. Tears formed in the student’s eyes, she broke down, and ran from the room. Does religion help us here? Yes and no, as we heard in the (in)famous Terry Schiavo case. There are diverse responses to such cases even within particular religions, because the factual a…

Everyone Should Know the Story of Cary Crall

By Joanna Brooks

…le had been: The Daily Universe made an independent decision to remove the student viewpoint titled “Defending Proposition 8” after being alerted by various readers that the content of the editorial was offensive. The publication of this viewpoint was not intended to offend, but after further review we recognized that it contained offensive content. This is consistent with policy that he Daily Universe has, on rare occasions, exercised in the past…