Vandy sending Christian groups away
Bob Kellogg - OneNewsNow - 2/2/2012 7:50:00 AM
InterVarsity vice president Andrew Ginsberg says school officials made it clear that they were meeting on Tuesday to clarify the policy -- not to receive comments or suggestions. Though the policy is supposedly all-inclusive, he says it appears to be aimed at Christian organizations.
"It's not so much that Vanderbilt is having a new policy that only affects Christians; rather it is that Vanderbilt has a new policy that they're using only with Christian groups," he comments. "And so I think there's still more discussion and conversation to be had."
Ginsberg says the new policy does not allow campus organizations to discriminate against any member or potential member, regardless of his or her views, lifestyle, or beliefs.
"What they have told us is how our constitution, which requires that leaders be Christians and live out their faith, would bring us off campus. So they would send us away," the group's vice president summarizes.
The policy came about after an on-campus Christian fraternity dismissed a member who admitted he was "gay," prompting school officials to investigate all campus organizations.
Dr. Carol Swain, a Christian professor at Vanderbilt, attended Tuesday's meeting. She told OneNewsNow that really nothing resolved during the discussion of the policy. She laments that it creates "an opportunity for people who oppose the views of religious groups to go in [and] create havoc."
