Posted by
maneburney on Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:57:53 PM
Yesterday, May 7th the Christian Fellowship of Shippensburg University filed a federal lawsuit against the university. The student group required it's members to be Christians and it's president had to be a man. The Christian Fellowship said that Shippensburg had violated a 2004 settlement of a different lawsuit about the school's student code of conduct. Some civil liberties group sued Shippensburg over a clause in the student code that prohibited "acts of intolerance" no sexist,racist,or homophobic speech. A federal judge blocked enforcement of that clause with a preliminary injunction. In spite of this, in February the Student Senate banned the Christian Fellowship from campus. The Student Senate was unhappy with the Christian Fellowship's membership and presidential requirements. Steven Aden is a lawyer for the alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom. Aden said "The club is under this cloud of suspicion, whereby their practices are being monitored to make sure they don't step out of line."
This sounds like traditional Left Wing bias against traditional values , but something is not right. The Christian Fellowship has been recognized by Shippensburg since the early seventies. The university has about eight religious organizations, all of them appear to be judeo-christian. Six of these groups have links to their homepage ( this may be an intranet since I could not access the Christian Fellowship's website.) What is going on?