See Christian Students Slamming Vanderbilt’s Religious Crackdown: ‘They’re…Asking Us to Deny Our Faith’
- Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:42pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Some professors and pupils at Vanderbilt University are fighting diligently against the university’s crack-down on campus religious groups. While the school’s administration has shown no sign of backing down, neither have individual students and campus groups who feel their religious rights are being trampled.
The Vanderbilt College Republicans have produced a new video (viewable on the “Restore Religious Freedom at Vanderbilt” web site) that showcases student reaction to the university’s non-discrimination rules — regulations that forbid student clubs from requiring leaders to hold specific beliefs.
The clip opens with individual students discussing, one-by-one, the nation’s history of religious freedom. They go on to utter the first portion of the First Amendment — “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” while reiterating the Founding Fathers’ words about faith.
“Our new so-called non-discrimination policy threatens to destroy the integrity of each of our religious organizations,” one student proclaims.
“With this policy, Vanderbilt is going somewhere where no other university has gone before,” says another student.
“What are they thinking?,” numerous students ask, as another chimes in to encourage viewers to get involved. “We call on the chancellor to stop this nonsense,” he says.
Watch the video, below:
In another video, the students raise a series of very important questions surrounding the college’s opposition to the crackdown. “They’re actually asking us to deny our faith,” one student says:
It seems the students at Vanderbilt aren‘t satisfied with the answers they’ve been given. This is one battle that doesn’t have a foreseeable end in sight.
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Comments (135)
lionshield
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:59pmoh,you have woken a sleeping gaint, vanny ! the christian have awoken from their sleepy
Report Post »slumper,and will do legal and spiritual battle against you !
Isaiah54:17 ” for no ! weapon formed against us will prevail, and you will refute every tongue
that accuses you. this is the heritage of servants of the Lord
,and this is their veindication from me.”declares the Lord.
bullcrapbuster
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:06pmYes God has a way of letting Satan get caught in his own snares.
These attacks on religion at the schools and universities are waking up the young people and causing them to get involved and informed.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:44pmSTAY IN THE WORD. TRUST HIM. IT’S totally ON.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:38pmVanderbilt University is located in NASHVILLE
What is one of the largest employers there?
BIBLE PUBLISHING
These Vandy students in the video clips are BRAVE and I am PROUD of them.
Yes a sleeping giant is waking UP
OMG in 2012 (Obama Must Go)
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:50pmChristian Students remenber your the Victor not the Victom – Stand, take them on we support you! You have more support than you think. Look forward to hearing a victory report from these students.
Report Post »777phase
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:18pmBlessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance…Psalm 33:12.
Report Post »[ The Day Is Near ] And do this, understanding the present time, the hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed…. Romans 13:11
Thomas
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:48pmCan Christians become the leaders of Atheists’ groups?
Report Post »QuranIsCorruptAndMuhammadPossessedBySatan
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:54amI have a better one…can Christians be the head of Muslim student groups?
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:50amAll of this since that turd was elected president … atheists, commies, radical muslims, anarchists, homosexuals and lesbians, femma nazis, OWS etc etc. coming out of the woodwork. There is no democrat party. It’s the Liberal Marxist party and there is only one way to deal with it, my American Patriot brothers and sisters … you’ll know what to do.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:26amSilent no more! For too long, Christians have misinterpreted “Turn the other cheek.” It refers to teaching Christian Doctrine, NOT allowing others to trample on our beliefs or abuse us in ANY way.
Report Post »Kick the dust off your feet, and move on to another town/person who’s open to hearing the Word of God.
Way to go, youngins!
VApatriot2
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:53amAmen!!
Report Post »KathleenElsie
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:51amIt makes me proud of the way the Christian youth have become aware of how valuable and necessary the freedom of religion is. The right to assemble with those that you have faith in common is also a protected right.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:44amDear God, Dear God! I cry for our Country. These Un-Godly people might win for a while.. God is always in charge and knows our heart. HE will win the final war.
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:48amWell Vanderbilt Divinity School has Amy-Jill Levine as a professor so what do you expect?
Report Post »TXMD
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:49amIt IS now or never. It IS NOT Catholics vs. the administration, or even Christians vs. the administration. It is people with any belief in God vs. the administration. The hope is that all of us will keep our head in the sand so they can knock off one religion at a time. (e.g., the abortion et. al. issue between the administration and the Catholic Church in the US) Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)in Germany in 1934 said (and says) it best. “First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came after the trade unionists and AI did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one lest to speak out for me.” We must all stand together and make the November 2012 vote so large and so demanding that even all of the administrations voting fixers and polling intimidation and lies will not matter. Wake up America. … or lose it.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:38amlet’s go to there website and support them
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:40pmJust finished watching GBTV, Feb 1 & 2…very interesting and jells my thoughts and awareness of where we are going. If you don’t get GBTV, please sign up and if you eliminate only 2 full tanks of gasoline for the year, it would pay for one year of viewing. Well worth it and let your older children watch because they need their eyes to be opened and look what is in their future and prepare and look to Good not Evil.
Report Post »Warren Schmidt is a retired “insurance actuary person” and is still motoring around in his RV so perhaps another actuary could use life-expectancy tables and stats of the United States and let Americans know how long we have before our nation’s life-insurance policy will be cashed-in with the death of America!…. Bummer!
Wake-up America!
RustyElbows
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 8:07pmWe must stand firm in our beliefs !
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:55pmThe attack on christianity is escalating it’s time christians who are still the majority stop sitting back and turning the other cheek stand up and be counted.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:30pmall you need to do is point a gun at an atheists and he or she becomes very relegious
Report Post »Small World
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:54pmAs Glenn quotes all the time “Not to stand is to stand not to speak is to speak”.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:52pmThis is an attack on religion… I admire these young people and the stand they are taking. As parents and American people we must stand with these our youth now! God help us all!
Report Post »Seth Patriot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:44pmIf the alumni ( and their wallets) agree with the students they could get the administration to back off in short order.
Report Post »grizzlydave
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:28pmTheir “non”-discrimination policy, is actually a discrimination policy. Welcome to the Communist States of America!
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:50pmAmen to that GRIZZLYDAVE. Non discrimination only discriminates against Christians.
Report Post »cbazan3
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:20pmKeep up the good fight children. Destroy the communists.
Report Post »Ohio50patriot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:19pmNow is the time, stand up and fight or lose you religous right forever.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:15pmWould any university in America force a Muslim student association to accept this decree? Of course not, it would not even be suggested and if it were all hell would break loose.
I hope these young people keep fighting and that with the help of the Alumni Association that they win.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:57pmActually, any Muslin groups at Vanderbilt woudl be required to allow open membership.
Sorry, just poor Christians trying to play the victim. Want to form your own cults do not accept one red cent of student or university money.
(P.S. the First Amendment doesn’t apply at a private school).
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:14pm@encinom…….hey kid,lunch break is over time to get back to class.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:20pmwould you join encinom
Report Post »since when do you park your first amendment rights to attend a private school?
possom
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:43pmHAH their affraid of the muslim’s! So are the athiests!
Report Post »happy2behere
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:56pmMomrules point is still good. You think a Muslim student group would appreciate a non-Muslim leader? Hardly.
Report Post »gingerbread
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:13pmSee, this is what makes this a great country. The student can leave the school, and demand their money back. With that many students leaving school, guess what Vanderbilt will do. Why change their policy of course. If they don’t they will loose one hell of a lot of money.
Report Post »pooka_yc
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:01pmI think it is time we found another way to educate ourselves. Bring the Communist university system down by starving the beast. They aren’t giving anyone an education anymore; it’s all indoctrination. Of what use is that unless you are going to be a Communist community organizer or thug dictator. Speak with your $$.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:13pmThe Bible also says, “The whole world will hate you because they hate me.”
Report Post »Way to go. Keep up the Good Work. You know they will only get harder on you. But if you keep the faith you will find the strength when you need it and or help as well.
The world is watching you.
Greenwood
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:54am1John 5: 19
Report Post »flyalot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:09pmI’m proud of these kids for standing up and fighting…gives me great hope for our future. What this amazing country has going for it above all other nations is that the majority of people will only take it so long until we’ve had enough and then we will fight back because “we the people” have tasted freedom and liberty and we will not allow the libs to back us into a wall without a fight. You young ‘uns are AWESOME!!!!! You have lots of support.
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:06pmThe Bible says if you are not for HIM, you are against HIM and that makes you an anti-Christ. If the shoe fits.
Report Post »Freedom is Freedom. America is not into free for this group to worship how they see fit and chop off the heads of the wives and daughters or beat them into submission and let a bunch of little girls burn in a school fire because they did not have their head scarf with THEM as they are GUESS WHAT?? RUNNING OUT OF A BURNING BUILDING, you backward camel jockeys. If it was not for the oil you would still be riding your camels warring with the neighbors. Yeah, I am going to have to go pray now, but those jerks make me angry when they let little girls burn to death for such ignorance and cruelty.
Mess23
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:05pmAmerica is the ultimate prize, but our Religion and guns stand in their way. Just like Obama the unAmerican said a couple years ago.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:01pmGOOD FOR THESE KIDS< SHAME ON VANDY. Enough is Enough. I wish these kids the success they DESERVE. nuf said
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:01pmVanderbilt is heading down the path of Yale and Harvard. Universities that were once intellectual incubators constructed to produce the very best behind the pulpits of America. To produce men powerful in faith AND in mind. Now they welcome every form of perversion and embrace the enemies of Freedom such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:58pmIf they were Mooselems, noone would care. They (the university) would even supply the rugs.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:01pmYep.
Report Post »1Infidel
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:26amAccommadate, accommodate. Yep, that is what social justice is: accommodating everything (but Christians) in order to bring on chaos.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:57pmNext you’ll see boy scouts being forced to accept girls……oh wait.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:02pmIt’s coming.
Report Post »KathleenElsie
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:57amBoy scouts do not have female children and youth they are still God oriented. OTOH the “Girl” scouts now allows transgendered members.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:55pmGotta Love Them Thar Liberals Heh Heh, good one. Common sense has taken a back seat.
Report Post »kconservative
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:55pmLEAVE THE COLLEGE, hopefully some other christian college will step forward and gives some of the kids that want to leave vanderbuilt, scholarships. Our whole system is collapsing under political correctness. God help us all.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:59pmPolitical Correctness = Socialism
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:55pmPolitical Correctness=Successfully Indoctrinated Sycophant.
Report Post »1Infidel
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:28amIt won’t be TCU. They have made it known in press releases they would rather be known as “TCU” than have anyone call them “Texas Christian” anymore.
Kudos by the way to Pepperdine which has also taken a stance to reject the secularists with their homosexual agenda.
Report Post »PrepperWebsite
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:55pmAs an educator, I‘m starting to rethink higher education’s real purpose…they are too expensive, you‘re not really learning anything that you can’t pick up by just reading a book, you have to sit there and listen to some old geezer force feed you his beliefs and it’s not like the old days, when you were very likely to get a decent job.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:59pmCollege is a joke for the most part nowadays.
Most of college is designed to churn our worker bees who can take that college debt they owe and have to pay off, to get a job so they can get a mortgage….that they have to pay off.
Keeps the consumer driven system flowing.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:14pmWelcome to the real world. I could never understand why the cost of education went up as information became more FREEly available. Why anyone would go into debt for education is beyond comprehension.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:01pmThere’s many of us out here who gained our education through the School of Hard Knocks.With no money for college,and tired of lousy low paying jobs,we’re self educated.I earned a Basic Electronics Cerificate back in the 80‘s and made a small fortune repairing vcrs and crt TV’s.I learned to repair major appliances(washers/dryers/refrigerators/micowaves/gas furnaces) from lots of reading and a small investment in tools.I’ve never needed a repairman on any of my appliances.I do it myself.Friends and family love me when their ‘stuff’ breaks down.
Report Post »But I found my true calling driving a truck.Inexpensive training,pays decent,and no boss looking over my shoulder all day.
As PrepperWebsite commented,there’s plenty to learn from simply reading books, and now with the internet,we have a vast easily accessible library at our fingertips.
angeleyes63
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:02pmHey PEPPERWEBSITE you are correct the school system as a whole is ran by progressives who want nothing more then to create more perverted anti American commies. Thank God for charter schools and home schooling.
Report Post »pooka_yc
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:31pmWell said. You know, your comment reminds me of the old song about “the company store”. Anyone remember this from “Sixteen Tons”?
“I was born one mornin‘ when the sun didn’t shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said “Well, a-bless my soul”
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store”
I think our higher education system has become the new “company store”. For those who are not familiar with the phrase, a company store is “a store usually extending limited amounts of credit from which employees of a company may and are sometimes required to buy their groceries and other merchandise”. The catch is, you always ended up owing money to the company store and could never leave the company to find other work. They kept you as a virtual slave because you could never get out of debt. Your wages were just high enough to keep making payments to the store but never enough to pay the debt and gain your freedom.
It’s time to tell the “company store”, the Communist university system, to take a flying leap.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:30pmPOOKA_YC…..love it! So true.
Report Post »stm62
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:53pmSecular fundamentalist have been winning alot of battles lately, but they won’t win the war. Repent, and turn back to The Almighty and He will deliver.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:51pmGo to the videos on Youtube and give them a thumbs up! Show your support!
Report Post »Freedom Keeper
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:47pmIf you want the TRUTH, check out OLE GLORY NEWS http://oleglorynews.com/
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:46pmSkrew Vanderbilt. It’s glory days are over. Don’t send you kids there, parents. And if they get a scholarship, shove it in their inbox.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:51pmNo doubt, Tron. What in the name of heaven are Christian students doing at Vanderbilt these days? I recommend Hillsdale.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:14pmYes indeed; Larry and the folks at Hillsdale. Love those people!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:33pmHow much snow did you get? Hogback is plus 2 feet. :-)
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:58pm@COPAT…I live in SW COS and got very little. I went out to my radio station out east and it started to get deep. Up in north COS, they got 9 inches, my listeners tell me. Yeah, you guys got nailed, right?
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