Religious Freedom Issue Comes to the Supreme Court
Should Christian clubs or oganizations be forced to accept non-Christian members? That's essentially the question that the US Supreme Court is about to take up.
And it's a question that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave the wrong answer to recently... ruling that Christian clubs at universities could not be officially recognized by those schools unless they open up to non-Christian voting members - and even leaders.
Go figure.
The Washington Examiner puts it this way:
Think of it this way: Should a Young Democrats club on a university
campus be compelled to elect Republican officers? Should a student
chapter of PETA be forced to be led by an ardent hunter and taxidermist?
The case revolves around that fact that the group Christian Legal Society has rules that require that its officers and members sign a statement attesting to their Christian faith. (Imagine!) Hastings University says they can't do that. And the Ninth Circuit agreed. But in a similar case from Chicago, a federal court took the side of the local branch of the same group. Which brings us to an important test of the 1st Amendment.
I smell another five to four decision in the offing.
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So maybe we can use this to
So maybe we can use this to get some Christian in the atheist organizations on campus as well? Haha wow.
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Defend our Religious Freedom
Defend our Religious Freedom - Read The Manhattan Declaration
"Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity! For there the Lord commanded the blessing" Psalm 133:1&3
This
is a historic time in our nation where people of faith across
denominational and political lines are uniting for the purpose of
protecting our religious and individual freedom. God promises to bless
us!
Christians across the nation are signing the new Manhattan
Declaration in an effort to let our leaders and the culture know that
we will not be silenced! We hope this Declaration grows into a major
movement to defend, as never before, life, marriage, and religious
liberties. To that end, American Family Association, along with over
200 Evangelical, Catholic and Orthodox leaders have signed the Manhattan Declaration and I am urging you to read it. It was penned by three authors including Chuck Colson.
(summary):
We are Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians who have
united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and
the common good, and call upon our fellow citizens, believers and
non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are:
(1) the sanctity of life, (2) the dignity of marriage as the conjugal
union of husband and wife, and (3) the rights of conscience and
religious liberty.
Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and
the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable.
Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our
culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their
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pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or
compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any
political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and
risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We will fully and
ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no
circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.
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