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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENIES REGISTRATION TO CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS GROUP
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — A Christian apologetics
group at the University of Colorado has filed a federal lawsuit against
the institution after officials rejected the group’s application for
registration because it requires its leaders to be Christians.
According to the lawsuit,
the Colorado Springs chapter of Ratio Christi “seeks to advance a
biblical worldview, explaining how the Bible applies to various current
cultural, moral, and political issues.”
It sees its leadership as “the spiritual leaders of the chapter,” who
are “responsible for promoting, guiding, and leading the spiritual
health of the chapter and its members; for leading others toward
Christian maturity; for teaching faithfully the word of God; and for
teaching, inculcating, defending, communicating, and advocating the chapter’s Christian beliefs.”
However, in 2016, after Ratio Christi applied for registration, which
would allow it to use campus space and obtain funding for activities,
its leaders were advised during a meeting that the application could not
be accepted because its Constitution requires its officers to be
Christians.
University officials asserted that the requirement conflicts with the
Board of Regents’ non-discrimination policy, which states, “The
University of Colorado does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
veteran status, political affiliation, or political philosophy in . . .
its educational programs and activities.”
They also outlined the the group could not mandate that members
“agree with and promote” Ratio Christi’s mission. Ratio Christi
reportedly attempted to assuage the concerns and tried over the course
of two years to work the matter out with the university, but were
repeatedly advised that the text of the group’s Constitution still posed
a problem.
According to the legal challenge, Sabrina Wienholtz, the school’s
director of student clubs, explained that to require members to “agree
with and promote” the group’s mission sends the message that Ratio
Christi is “not open to all students,” especially “students who may
disagree.” She further noted that “[t]he requirement that club
officers profess faith is in violation of our anti-discrimination
policy.”
Wienholtz said that if the group wanted to obtain registration
status, it should use “aspirational language,” such as that leaders
“should” profess faith, and members “should” promote the group’s
mission, rather than that they must do so.
As Ratio Christi still remains unregistered with the University of
Colorado, it filed suit on Wednesday to challenge the rejection. It
notes that various campus groups require their members and leaders to
adhere to certain beliefs, and they have not been denied registration.
“The Trans Student Union requires that its members ‘believe
that transgender people are the gender they say they are,’” the suit
outlines. “[The group] threatens to revoke the membership or leadership
position of anyone who engages in ‘transphobic comments or behavior.’”
“[T]he Gender & Sexuality Alliance states that its ‘weekly
meetings are offered to all trans, queer, intersex, and
allied students,’” the legal complaint adds.
“[T]he Gender & Sexuality Alliance would refuse to accept as
members or officers students who hold biblical beliefs that human
beings are created as either male or female, that their status as such
cannot change, and that sexual conduct is to be reserved for a marriage
between one man and one woman.”
The fraternities only allow men to join, and the sororities only
allow women, the challenge further notes, and the Young Democratic
Socialists of America group is for “leftists of all stripes.”
Ratio Christi also contends that there is another Christian student
group on campus that requires its members to agree to a statement of
faith, and mandates that leaders “faithfully attend a local
Bible-believing church.”
Similarly, “[i]t would contradict Ratio Christi’s expressive and
associational purpose to permit individuals who do not profess a
relationship with Jesus Christ and share its religious beliefs to serve
as its officers,” the organization states.
“Conferring leadership positions to those who do not profess a
relationship with Jesus Christ and share Ratio Christi’s religious
beliefs would communicate a message which Ratio Christi opposes and does
not wish to communicate.”
Ratio Christi is therefore seeking a court-ordered injunction
preventing the University of Colorado from denying its registration
status.
Read the legal challenge in full here.
“Like any other student group at a public university, religious
student organizations should be free to choose their leaders without the
government meddling,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Travis
Barham, who is representing the student group in court, said in a
statement.
“It would be absurd for the university to require the vegan student
group to appoint a meat-lover as its president. Likewise, the University
of Colorado shouldn’t force Christian students to let atheists or other
non-Christians to lead their Bible studies in order to become a
registered club.”
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Gun For Hire Radio with Cal Carlstrom and Shari Spivak
New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)-
This week on Gun For Hire Radio, we welcome Veteran Marine and all
around great guy Cal Carlstrom, and one of our favorite “repeat
offenders” Shari Spivak from the SAW Group.
Shari announced that
on December 11, 2018 at 7:00pm here at Gun For Hire at the Woodland Park
Range, The Second Amendment Women Group is having their regular “group
shoot.” It’s only $10 to participate if you’re a member of SAW and $!5
for non-members of SAW, so come on over! Also, on November 18, 2018 SAW
is going to have a membership table at Gun For Hire. Join SAW for only
$25 per year, or just come and meet the SAW Group members who will
answer all your questions. The SAW Group does instruction classes from
basic to instructor levels, and all people are welcome. Shari Spivak and
Sandy Muldoon are both very active 2A advocates and they have turned so
many opinions around about gun safety and ownership. To find out more
about the SAW Group and their fight for our rights at www.sawshootingclub.com .
Cal
Carlstrom volunteered for the Marine Corps, he served our country
without hesitation, and now he resides with his lovely wife in Union
County, New Jersey. In the last couple of years, Cal attempted to
re-enter the workforce as an armed guard, for Global Security. His new
supervisor said Cal needed to apply for an FID card, and Cal complied.
Then the supervisor said Cal needed to attend SORA classes and get a new
background check, and Cal complied. Then the new supervisor told him he
had to file for a pistol permit, and Cal complied. After all of that,
the new supervisor told Cal he needed to apply for a “carry permit for
work only.” You know so he can’t carry a gun safely in the holster,
where it belongs, but so he can keep his gun locked up in the trunk of
his car and separate from the ammunition, where it’s basically useless
in the event Cal gets attacked by a bad guy outside of the confines of
his new job, and Cal complied. A letter of need was sent by the
Federally licensed, Global Security Company offices, to accommodate
Cal’s request for the work only permit. By law the letter has to be
approved by the local Police Chief, so it can be sent for approval to
the State Police, to be returned to the local Police Chief for review
and execution of the permit, then a judge must sign off on the permit,
then Cal can go to work again and pay his income taxes. Easy
peasy…right?
So, months and months go by, even though the law in
New Jersey says that these types of permits must be processed within 30
days. Cal eventually went over to Judge Pime’s office at the Union
County Courthouse and requested a meeting with the Judge’s secretary or
some member of the office staff that could explain the details of the
delay, and what, if anything Cal could do to expedite the process. After
the frigid office staffers made sure to be as offensive as possible to
this lovable Veteran Marine, endearing Veteran Jersey City public school
teacher, and notably the nicest guy you could ever want to meet, Cal
received no replication from the Judge who originally received his
permit request.
After numerous calls from Global Security hoping
to be able to start him at work, Cal made another trip to the Union
County Courthouse, where he was informed that yet another Judge, the
Hon. William Daniels had been assigned his permit application. Cal got
the word “from the inside” that this new Judge may actually help further
his request because Judge Pime had taken his own opinion on processing
carry permit requests, versus you know following the law, and all… After
legislating from the bench, Cal and 9 other of Global Security
Company’s potential employees were denied a “work only carry permit.”
Cal
didn’t stand for that, he sat down and called Evan Nappen. We have to
get litigious on their asses. To add insult to injury, Cal found out
that his request was denied because his letter of need “wasn’t strong
enough.” But wait…there’s more! The Judge actually said that “there is
no need for armed security in movie theaters…” Ludicrous, no?
Sandy
pointed out that every single county in New Jersey gives these permit
requests to the most anti-gun judges they possibly can. That’s right,
you heard it right here on Gun For Hire Radio, county judges in New
Jersey are not ruling based on the law statutes. Welcome to our reality!
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The
Cheeseman-Jillard cases were both denied at the State level, so they are
appealing the decision. They are going to need more money to fight the
fight for all of us! If you value your rights as an American, you should
donate to the cause. “If you are tired of being told you do not have a
need for a 2C:58-4 Permit, please donate to the Case. Every dollar will
go to defeating the Siccardi Rule and NJAC 13:54-2.4d-1.” The
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The hosts of the weekly Gun
For Hire Radio broadcast are Sandy Berardi and Master Firearms Trainer,
Anthony Colandro and they come to you from deep within the bowels of
the Second Amendment wasteland, that is New Jersey with THE most
listened to Second Amendment broadcast in the Nation!
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Tucker Carlson delivered a stunning monologue Wednesday,
slamming CNN for posing as a champion of free speech, after the network
spent months trying to have competitors silenced and banned.
Carlson addressed CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for revoking Jim Acosta’s White House access.
“In
the past couple of days, you’ve heard a lot of pumping and puffing
about free speech and freedom of the press, and how those freedoms are
currently imperiled by the White House, and to be clear, we are for free
speech. Unfettered, absolute free speech.” Carlson urged.
“And we
cannot help but notice that some of free speech’s greatest enemies are
now posing as its defenders, all of a sudden.” he added.
And that’s when the smackdown commenced, with Tucker providing examples of CNN’s total hypocrisy when it comes to free speech.
“Take
CNN, for example. It was a CNN that almost single-handedly led the
campaign to have broadcaster Alex Jones banished from the Internet, on
the grounds that they didn’t like what Jones had to say,” Tucker
continued.
“Ultimately, CNN succeeded in doing that. The network
convinced every major tech platform to ban Jones and his outlet,
Infowars. You don’t have to like Alex Jones to see that as a terrifying
loss for free speech, because it was exactly that. But CNN was not done
trying to silence its critics.” Carlson further explained.
CNN is
“claiming to defend free speech only when it is their free speech.”
Tucker declared, noting that CNN also didn’t devote any airtime to even
report on the US government forcing RT to register as a foreign agent
under threat of imprisonment.
“Yes, Russia Today is owned by a
foreign government. So is the BBC,” he said. “But because RT is owned by
Russia, which the left believes got Donald Trump elected, it is fine
with CNN if they are bullied and silenced.”
“Call CNN what you will,” Carlson said. “But don’t pretend they are defenders of the First Amendment. They are not.”
“To
see a channel that has lobbied against the right of others to say what
they think is true, to all of a sudden emerge as this defender of the
First Amendment is nauseating.” Tucker added.
Carlson and his guest Victor Davis Hanson then discussed how the Obama administration actively spied on reporters.
“This is a violation of press freedom,” said Hanson. “We didn’t hear that.”
“CNN
has argued that others should lose their voice, should be silenced,
because they’re quote conspiracy theorists, but you’re listing
conspiracy theories that they have promulgated on their air.” Carlson
told his guest after Hanson cited examples of various attacks on the
President by CNN talking heads.
Turning back to Acosta, Hanson
addressed the CNN reporter’s infamous ‘chop’ to a female White House
intern’s arm, and noted that “this particular time you went over the
edge, you were disruptive you were rude, you took over an optional press
conference. Nothing in the constitution says he has to have a press
conference.”
Despite the tone of Carlson’s broadcast, Fox News
released an earlier statement expressing support for CNN’s lawsuit, for
which CNN thanked their rival network.
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In an interview with CNN, of all places, Senator Rand Paul
warned that there is a concerted effort by big tech, in particular
Facebook, to censor conservative viewpoints, and it will lead to their
downfall.
“I think if it gets so bad that they don’t
allow conservative viewpoints on Facebook, I think you will get to a
point where people will leave in droves,” Paul told CNN Thursday.
“So Facebook, if they want to keep making money, are going to have to
convince conservatives that they’re not the enemy.” Paul urged.
Paul
noted that while it is not in the nature of conservatives to push for
regulation of private companies, big tech has justifiably become an
exception to that rule.
“It’s a privately owned company,” Paul
said, adding “Most times, conservatives, we don’t want to over-regulate
private businesses.
“But they do have sort of a monopoly on this sort of social exchange in speech,” he added.
“[W]hat I’ve been saying for a while is that we need to look at the
barriers to entry that government might be creating,” Paul continued.
“Not
the government starting other companies but the government getting out …
to allow competition with Facebook.” the Senator added.
Paul’s comments come in the wake of revelations that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ordered the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner, to back off of investigating Facebook with regarding to Russian interference in US elections.
A Senate source further commented
that Schumer is concerned that Facebook may “bow to pressure from the
right wing, who opposed Facebook’s purging of fake accounts and bots.”
Schumer reportedly told Warner that he should cooperate with Facebook rather than scrutinize its activity.
Oh — and Schumer’s campaign received more $ from Facebook in 2016 than anyone else in Congress. And his daughter works there. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html …
