Attorney Criticizes Universities for Suppressing Christianity on Campus
University officials are becoming increasingly hostile to the expression of Christian viewpoints, noted a legal advisor that works to defend Christians' right to speak the "Truth."
"Using tactics such as 'nondiscrimination' policies, speech codes, and 'safe space' zones, university officials are singling out Christian students for censorship and punishment," said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Senior Legal Counsel David French in statement prior to a lecture this week about how Christian thought and voice are suppressed on today's university campuses.
"Being a Christian shouldn't make you a second class citizen on campus," he also noted.
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French – who also serves as director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, which defends religious rights on American public universities - was invited as the guest presenter at a speaking event this past Tuesday on "Breaking Liberalism's Hold on Higher Education."
During the event in Scottsdale, Ariz., just northeast of Phoenix, the legal head said there is "unbelievable bias and hostility" at these large cultural institutions where illegal activity is going on. Such activity, he noted, includes censoring students speech code, violating the rights of Christian student groups, and discriminating against Christian professors .
"There is no other area of our culture that is more explicitly hostile than our colleges," explained French to the Christian Post after Tuesday's event. "What that has resulted in the real world is a censorship of Christianity and exclusion of Christians on campus and exclusion of Christian professors from getting promotion and tenure on the job."
Alliance Defense Fund, which was founded to "aggressively defend religious liberty," is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. It was launched in 1994 by leaders of more than 35 ministries, including the late Dr. Bill Bright, the late Larry Burkett, Dr. James Dobson, Dr. D. James Kennedy, and the late Marlin Maddoux. Their prime concern was the dramatic loss of religious freedom in America's courts and the resulting challenges to people of faith to live and proclaim the Gospel.
French's speaking engagement Tuesday, which was held at Grace Chapel, was part of the Center for Arizona Policy's "Think About It" series.
