A Tale of Two Yales
Yale University |
They may be Ivy Leaguers, but the campus's law school hasn't been too bright in its treatment of believers. When the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) was invited to Yale's Federalist Society to talk about Jack Phillips's Supreme Court case, the usual suspects pitched a fit. The school's LGBTQ group, Outlaws, were furious that the club would invite a Christian group to campus who defended a man with natural marriage views. (Views, incidentally, that were vindicated by the Supreme Court!)
They responded, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told me, as "campus leftists do. They protested." One of their demands, he explained, was that Yale change their student loan program and stop offering financial aid to any student who goes to work at a group at a Christian organization. Specifically, the ones that actually follow the Bible's teachings on marriage and sexuality. Yale, Senator Cruz wrote to law school dean Heather Gerken, has "an obligation to protect and respect the constitutional rights of its students." Blacklisting Christians -- or worse, punishing them for their views -- is an insult to the Constitution these future attorneys should be learning. And Senator Cruz, for one, refuses to take it lying down.
Earlier this week, Senator Cruz launched an investigation, demanding all of the communication that led to the change. Although Yale promises to comply with the probe, Dean Gerken insists the university did nothing wrong. "Contrary to press reports, our policy does not single out any student based on religion. Instead, it is designed to protect all students, including Christians..." Let's hope she's telling the truth, Senator Cruz said, because:
Tony Perkins (@tperkins) is President of the Family Research Council . This article was on Tony Perkin's Washington Update and written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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