Vanderbilt University joins the ranks of the godless hordes in pretense of being concerned for Constitutional matters -- and it is going to get away with it.


  From the Vanderbilt Catholic.org site:

  Vanderbilt Catholic will not re-register as a student organization at Vanderbilt University for the Fall Semester 2012.  The decision was announced to members in a recent letter from the Student Board as well as at Sunday Masses on March 25.
     According to Fr. John Sims Baker, Chaplain of Vanderbilt Catholic, “The discriminatory non-discrimination policyof Vanderbilt University has forced our hand.”
     Student organizations must re-register in April and affirm that they will abide by the controversial non-discrimination policy.  The Administration is forcing religious groups to open leadership positions to all students, regardless of whether or not they practice the religion or even know anything about it. 

     Fr. Baker says that Vanderbilt Catholic will re-organize. “With Bishop Choby’s complete support, we will continue to serve the students of Vanderbilt as an independent ministry.  We are going to open our doors wider in order to make a greater effort to reach out to all Vanderbilt students and all college students in Nashville. 

Editor's notes:  the new scam against religion and [especially] the Christian faith,  is this business of being "concerned for acts that discriminate."  Under that banner,  the secular and godless world attacks institutions of faith for the unspoken but expressed goal of driving religion from the public square. 

Vanderbilt University has ordered all campus based private clubs to open their membership roles to those who might not support the tenets of that particular club.  Vanderbilt Catholic (a 500 member Catholic club)  is being required to allow anyone interested in membership into the club regardless of personally expressed faith or the lack, thereof.  

Obama,  the titular head of the current anti-faith movement,  took Hossana/Tabor Lutheran Church to task for requiring its newly hired  teachers to be members of the church.  via his EEOC.  Obama was trying to order the Lutheran Church to open it private school to anyone who applied for a teaching position,  even if an unbeliever.  The church,  seeing the existential danger of this Federal order to itself,  refused to comply and the matter wound up in the Supreme Court.  On January 23rd of this year,   the High Court decided against the Obama Administration in an unanimous decision (9-0).   

Vanderbilt administrators cannot possibly miss the point of their ruling as relates to the future well-being of any group having specific rules of membership and unique societal goals.  In effect,  Vanderbilt is saying that all on-campus clubs must be exactly the same ----  in effect. More than this,  Vanderbilt administrators surely can see that this matter,  in terms of Constitutional concerns,  has been decided and not in their favor.   

Can a private school,  Vanderbilt,  order clubs to meet its particular institutional standards?  Of course,  Can that same school,  pretend to be concerned with compliance to specific Constitutional concerns already decided by the High Court as it functions in opposition to those very decisions?  Not and claim to be an academic institution  --  assuming, of course,  that "academic" has something to do with intelligent design.  

What we have here, is another attack against organized faith-based institutions by unbelievers.  It is no more complicated than that.  And to think that it is our own government mounting this campaign against its own people.  





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