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Religious Freedom & Dual Enrollment: A Minnesota Case
Can state education funding support student instruction at religious schools? The First Amendment’s two Religion Clauses require both that the governm...
Students report being pressured into particular political views by professors on Missouri campuses.
“I think there’s good sides on both parts of the spectrum so just meeting in the middle somewhere in my opinion is the best way,” said Pat Jackson, MU student.
While most students speak their minds freely, some Missouri college students say they’re being pressured into particular views. By their professors.
“Many of them said ‘I am Christian and I can support this advocacy project why can’t you?” said Emily Brooker, 2006 graduate of MSU.
Brooker had a class project to advocate for homosexuals’ ability to adopt or foster children. She did not agree.
“He told me it would affect my grade in some way but he wasn’t sure how,” said Brooker.
At the capital, Republican Rep. Jane Cunningham presented the Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act. The act is encouraging college campuses to take steps like conducting a study on current intellectual diversity and better promoting a variety of panels and speakers on boards.
One opponent of the act worried about censorship if this act is passes.
“It would inhibit not promote the free exchange of ideas,” said Frank Schmidt, MU professor.
While Cunningham wants universities to walk the tolerance talk, it seems the marketplace of ideas needs to find common ground.
Can state education funding support student instruction at religious schools? The First Amendment’s two Religion Clauses require both that the governm...
The department seeks to rescind these regulations because it argues that “they are not necessary to protect the First Amendment right to free speech and free exercise of religion; have created confusion among institutions; and prescribe an unduly burdensome role for the Department to investigate allegations regarding IHEs’ treatment of religious student organizations.”
Under newly proposed modifications to SB 1146, which have passed the state Senate and are under consideration by the state Assembly, California courts would be able to force religious schools to adopt nondiscrimination regulations that effectively discriminate against their moral foundations. The proposed amendments erase the exemption that previously allowed religious schools to operate in […]
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