The ominously named “Blueprint for Positive Change 2020,” written by the Human Rights Campaign, calls for the U.S. Dept. of Education to deny accreditation to faith-based colleges and universities if they “discriminate or do not meet science-based curricula standards.”
Such legal-sounding language is eyebrow-raising for many Christian conservatives who have witnessed homosexual activists win numerous legal battles over what “discrimination” means in a courtroom. To date, numerous Christian business owners have been on the losing end of that legal and moral fight, and the HRC document suggests Christian schools are next.
HRC: Stop respecting ‘stated mission’
HRC, with its staff of attorneys, apparently sees a legal opportunity to use the 1960s-era Higher Education Opportunity Act to punish Christian schools that have not embraced homosexual rights on their campuses. The federal law currently includes a provision to “respect the stated mission” of religious schools but that allowance, which dates back to the Lyndon Johnson administration, is now conflicting with LGBT groups that are attacking orthodox beliefs about human sexuality and marriage in the name of twenty-first century progress.
The HRC document got noticed in mid-November by Dr. Al Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In a siren-blaring Nov. 18 commentary, the longtime theological warns that the “Blueprint” asks the federal government to clarify that the “stated mission” provision, which was written to protect Christian schools, “does not require the accreditation of religious institutions that do not meet neutral accreditation standards including nondiscrimination policies and scientific curriculum requirements.”
“In terms of accreditation,” Mohler writes, “that is an atomic bomb.”
Mohler also noticed the far-left push over science-based standards, which seems out of place for HRC’s stated mission. He writes:
The Human Rights Campaign is not known for any particular agenda on the creation-evolution front, nor is the group preoccupied with particle physics. The Human Rights Campaign is targeting issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, cloaking them in the language of “science.” This is an undisguised effort to require Christian schools and colleges to abandon biblical authority or lose accreditation.
“Once you set up a religious institution, you have a right to teach whatever you want to,” says attorney John Whitehead, who heads the civil liberties law firm The Rutherford Institute. “If you disagree with certain scientific principles, a religious school has a right to disagree and that doesn’t mean they will be nonaccredited. No, they shouldn’t be.”
According to American Conservative editor Rod Dreher, however, faith-based schools would indeed be in legal trouble if the Biden administration agrees to pursue them through accreditation.
“If a college or school lost its accreditation, it would have to close. Simple as that, “Dreher warns in his own November commentary. “This is the point. The HRC believes that if you do not accept its vision of sexuality, then you should have no place in public life.:
The future looks bleak for faith-based schools if a future Biden administration takes action, Dreher further warns, but he predicts a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court could write a landmark decision that defends the First Amendment if a lawsuit ever reaches the high court.
“It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or a Jew or whatever,” Whitehead tells One News Now. “If you establish a religious institution, you’re protected by the First Amendment, and I think this would be a good First Amendment issue.”
WEILL this just apply to christian/catholic schools. OR WILL it also apply to muslim schools?
C’mon LT, you know the Constitution applies to ALL of us. It must or it is worthless!
That’s how it SHOULD BE. BUT AS we see, time and time again, things only seem to apply ONE WAY, not the other.
To fully advance the Dishonorable Democrat’s destructive agendas of socialism, open borders, gun control, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with our Constitution, GOD, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the guise of “anti-discrimination.”
Once you have asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord of your life,
the immoral demonic Democrats CAN NOT take away your Love, Faith and Trust in GOD.
It is up to the parents to teach their children about GOD’s and his son Jesus Christ’s Love..
Scruffy this is why I have been calling them DEMONcrats, there is not one person in that party that has not bowed their knee to satan. You are very much right in your assessment of what they want for this nation. If the demons in congress and the biden creatures have their way everything Christian will be wiped from this nation, in an interview with newsnet early this month or last month biden said that he will set up a state religion being i-slime as the state religion, he has said this a few times even with cnn and other demon friendly news channels, that he would mandate that i-slime be taught in all schools. This nation was based on religious freedom and now we have a person that says we or longer have those rights.
Just remember;
Once you have asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord of your life,
the immoral demonic Democrats CAN NOT take away your Love, Faith and Trust in GOD.
GOD’s Will be done.
Why are all of the liberals silent, regarding the above article? The liberals all scream separation of Church and state, don’t they? Oh, I forgot, separation of Church and state only applies to liberals, when it suits there own needs and when it doesn’t suit their own needs, the liberals want government interference, in Christian schools and the liberals want to interfere in Christians lives. Should we call this the persecution of Christians?????
They’re silent, CAUSE THIS IS WHAT they have all been working for.
It astounds me how worked up and neurotic the HRC and atheist in general all get over something they insist doesn’t exist. The Judayo / Christian doctrine does not recognize homosexuality or gender reassignment. The followers do not pass judgment on those who do not follow the doctrine.. only God does. You CAN’T force someone to accept anything out side of there belief system… You can’t brow beat… you can legislate it. PERIOD! All that will happen is more separation of cultures due to schools creating their own accreditation… and these jackasses can’t stop employers excepting the accreditation and hiring on that basis. Someone with that accreditation just can’t get a government job… but it looks like it’s going bankrupt anyway. Then they could turn the tables on them for prejudice.
These Dem groups all HATE the Constitution so they tend to ignore it and therefore are blind to it’s power! The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ….” This, like the other NINE Amendments in the Bill Of Rights places strict limitations upon government!
Of course, there IS A WAY around the Constitution … FLOOD SCOTUS WITH LIBERALS who will allow them to do whatever they want! If we come to that … well, I don’t need to tell you what to do!
Since when has the constitution mattered to these traitors?? IF IT DID< there wouldn't BE ALL THEsE lockdowns, or mask mandates, or all of those HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS of gun laws.
i have no use for the homosexual life style and i dam sure don’t want it shoved in my face 24/7
it is pure sin and they want the rest of us to accept that they are gay look at me im a queer type of junk.
it is time to stop this nonsense.
I think it is ironic that they are requiring schools to meet “science-based curricula standards” when the group itself is founded on ignoring X and Y gene science.
So true. Add to that, IF as they keep saying “Gender is a social construct”, THEN WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO force parents, into allowing their kid(s), to be given MEDICAL procedures/drugs, to change their ‘gender’