The following comes from a Sept. 8 posting on Religion News Service.
A well-established international Christian student group is being denied recognition at almost two dozen California college campuses because it requires leaders to adhere to Christian beliefs, effectively closing its leadership ranks to non-Christians and gays.
California State University, which has 23 campuses, is “de-recognizing” local chapters of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an evangelical Christian group with 860 chapters in the United States. The university system says InterVarsity’s leadership policy conflicts with its state-mandated nondiscrimination policy requiring membership and leadership in all official student groups be open to all.
“For an organization to be recognized, they must sign a general nondiscrimination policy,” said Mike Uhlencamp, director of public affairs for the California State University system. “We have engaged with (InterVarsity) for the better part of a year and informed them they would have to sign a general nondiscrimination statement. They have not.”
InterVarsity, active in the United States since 1947, has been challenged on more than 40 college campuses, but CSU, with 447,000 students, is the largest to ban it so far. Other schools that have challenged InterVarsity include Vanderbilt University, Rollins College and Tufts University.
The challenges stem from a 2010 Supreme Court decision that ruled a public college can refuse to recognize a religious student organization with an “all-comers” policy if its religious beliefs are effectively discriminatory.
InterVarsity policy states membership is open to all, but leaders must affirm its “doctrinal basis,” which declares belief in “the entire trustworthiness” of the Bible. Many Christians who read the Bible literally also argue it prohibits homosexuality….
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University of Pennsylvania Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship
Pander or Perish = The ‘gospel’ of the Gaystapo
CCD is unique in the range of Authentic Catholic viewpoints it permits to be expressed, unlike most ‘catholic; (Small ‘c’) publications (like the ‘Catholic Voice”…) and others who know their lucrative paychecks come from Big Money Mostly – meaning the Gaystapo and their stooges…
– who hate reporting about the Homosex Attack by the “Frothy Mixers” of the Abomination – on the Church & Children, as too ‘icky’.to deal with. The Great Harm to Children (those molested physically & those mentally in ‘schools;) is nowhere near as important to them than their cushy lifestyles and hob-mobbing with the ‘Gliterati’ (Rich Anti-Catholic Snobs & Enforcers) who along with the publicity it provides are their real sources for ‘worship;
SEE CMTV:
“Catholic Establishment Media
…As we close, consider this startling point. If there had been a Catholic Alternative Media in the 1970s and 80s free from bishop control, the homosexual clergy sex abuse scandal

would never have blown up, the Church wouldn’t be bankrupt in many dioceses, the moral authority of the bishops wouldn’t be compromised, and the reputation of Holy Mother Church wouldn’t be so terribly damaged.
Remember: SOMEONE has to speak up.”
It is curious that the foto is of the University of Pennsylvania, my alma mater, and the first Newman Club. Yes, they will do all they can to silence any opposition to their sexual license.
There is certainly a way around the Supreme Court’s holding. Too often, organizations are all too pleased to morph into something less Christian. In any event, the CSU is very closed to Christian expression (or Jewish), seeming to have eyes only for “Palestinian Rights” students (or non-students). This needs to be challenged and worked around. Certainly, if sodomites, within 18 years, can reverse the Supreme Court’s view that a State cannot control sexual ethics, then some way can be found to recognize that an organization is free to limit its leadership only to “believers”. Of course, this will not sit well with Homofascists who are ready to throw in with Hitler and burn all bibles (or any other book) that forbids, or labels sodomy as anything other than bestial. (What does Actor Ian McKellen do to hotel bibles? Tear out offending pages regarding homosexual prohibitions!) Time to fight on.
American institutions of so-called “higher education” have become very dangerously “un-American,” and tragically immoral, since the 1960s! They reject our Nation’s very foundations of Judeo-Christian religion and morality, with tolerance already long-ago established, for all religions! These worthless “education institutions” should be totally shorn of all “post-1960’s” liberal “hippie garbage,” and forced to return to their original American roots, and Judeo-Christian foundations!
This has already happened elsewhere. Vanderbilt University has a similar non-discrimination clause so the Catholic student group at Vanderbilt lost its campus recognition. Vanderbilt Catholic is now University Catholic and has no connection to the university. See https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/university-forces-vanderbilt-catholic-group-to-change-its-name/
Beware the ‘Curse of the Chicken’ hawkers! – Aka the Gaystapo Thought Police. They are quite possibly a whole lot more serious about forcing You to Pander to their agenda, than you think you need to be about Keeping the Freedom to Dissent from their party line. Even the food line…
School bans ‘offensive’ Chick-fil-A sandwiches
by Todd Starnes
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/12/school-bans-offensive-chick-fil-sandwiches/
Feathers have been ruffled at California’s Ventura High School, where the principal this week banned the football booster club from selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches over fears that people might be offended…
– “With their political stance on gay rights and because the students of Ventura High School and their parents would be at the event, I didn’t want them on campus,” Wyatt told the Ventura County Star.
It was a sentiment supported by Trudy Tuttle Ariaga, superintendent of the Ventura Unified School District.
Funny – Not So… Someone Else is talking about Newman Club Values in School:
Santa Rosa Diocese: Teacher Contract Update Affirming Catholic Teaching Will Happen
September 11, 2014 By Kimberly Scharfenberger | https://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/3527/Santa-Rosa-Diocese-Teacher-Contract-Update-Affirming-Catholic-Teaching-Will-Happen.aspx
The Santa Rosa Diocese’s contract addendum by which teachers at Catholic schools will affirm their acceptance of Catholic teaching is reportedly still on track for implementation.“There is no intention not to do this [and] it will happen at some point,” said the communications director for the Santa Rosa diocese, Brian O’Neel, according to Petaluma 360.
Last year, diocesan Bishop Robert Vasa announced plans to have all parochial elementary and high school teachers within the diocese sign an agreement in their revised contracts to “bear witness” and affirm Church teaching. The moral addendum will reportedly include acknowledgement that contraception, abortion, homosexual marriage, and euthanasia are “modern errors” and grave offenses to human dignity.
The Cardinal Newman Society reported on Bishop Vasa’s statement saying that the plan was postponed in order to provide “an opportunity to teach [by] prepar[ing] presentations for principals and teachers on ‘matters of faith and morals.’”
“[BishopVasa] quickly understood that he had to do a little preparatory work first, so that is still where we stand,” O’Neel reportedly stated. “He is continuing to speak with educators and administrators so that the groundwork is laid.”
Bishop Vasa reportedly told Santa Rosa teachers that Catholic teachings cannot “be left up to a person’s own discretion…”
This is so sad! A direct result of the “fruits” of Vatican II!! Remember when every Catholic church and school, all over the world– was exactly the same?? Before Vatican II, a Catholic school was a Catholic school, period!! No question! Vatican II nearly killed the Church! We desperately need, once again, the dedicated religious orders of teaching nuns, priests, and brothers, to return! And for all the immoral and heretical teaching religious orders, like the Jesuits– to undergo massive reforms back to the Faith!!
What InterVarsity is really crying about is that they are losing public funding for their clubs when they are on State campuses. (It’s interesting how that’s conveniently left out of the article; “recognition” = university funding and any “religion” is eligible.) Personally, I don’t think tax dollars should go toward funding any club, personally–religious or otherwise. If enough people think the organization is important, they will find the money. Not all InterVarsity clubs are Catholic friendly.
At the public university where I work, recognized groups can ASK for money but it doesn’t mean they’ll get any. However, being recognized means that they can be listed on the campus web site (so that people can find anything from the Astronomy Club to the Catholic Campus Ministry), it means they can set up tables in front of the student union, they can have their activities listed for free in the campus newspaper, and they can use campus facilities like meeting rooms in the student union. It gives them more visibility on campus for people who are looking for them.
Gosh – in the former City of Saint Francis (better known as Sodom by the Sea) militant homosexualist activist and (now former) judge Vaughn Walker refused to recuse himself…
And the lamesteam media covered up his notorious position of power in the local Gaystapo – until after the case.
This represents a maxim of the Coin Toss Jurisprudence of said Gaystapo = Tails they Win, Heads you Lose, also sometimes referred to as the ‘Pander or Perish’ clause.
SEE
Florida anti-school choice group wants Catholic judge to recuse herself
https://watchdog.org/169859/catholic-school-choice/
Being a Catholic website, maybe you folks should argue for the rights of InterVarsity OVER the rights of the administration at a CATHOLIC university:
https://www.wisconsingazette.com/milwaukee-gaze/gay-marquette-student-forced-out-of-leadership-with-christian-group.html
Who controls the rules for student organizations at PRIVATE colleges? I-V?