A Christian College in Montana is Refusing to Allow a Student Pro-Life Display
“we draw the line at public displays of divisive topics”
The school fears the display would be divisive. If students run into this at a Christian school, what places are left as options for Christian students?
The College Fix reports:
Christian college bans pro-life display because people might think it’s pro-life
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” (below), 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.
“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.
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Not answered is: is it a pro-life display?
Or, is it a pro-life display with graphic pictures of dismembered fetuses and pools of blood?
If the latter, then I can see why the display is not allowed.
Hmmm…sounds terribull.
I did an Internet search. They wanted to erect crucifixes, and hang posters saying “Unborn Lives Matter.” No gross-out pictures. I’m pro-choice myself, but I’m also pro-first amendment, and don’t think they should have been stifled.
Maybe the school should rethink their reason for being? Luke 12:51-53
I can come up with other, divisive passages in the New Testament. Like this gem So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Probably Methodist. Yup, Methodist, Presbyterian and Church of Christ. The leftist fringe of the Christian religion.
One completely apostate church, one mostly, and one well on its way.
Not all Christian churches are Christian. Look at it this way, if there is lots of money at the top of an entrenched bureaucracy, the chances of it becoming corrupted go way up.