Stephen Siao, president of the university’s College Republicans, told the newspaper Vanderbilt is trying to distance itself from its “Southern, white, rich and religious” past and has “launched an assault on religious groups on campus.”
A faculty adviser for the Christian Legal Society at Vanderbilt University said enforcement of a nondiscrimination policy has gone beyond political correctness and improperly threatens certain campus groups.
“I see it as part of a larger attack on religious freedom that’s taking place across the country — particularly when it comes to conservative groups,” Carol Swain told Fox News.
The policy forbids discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, but it also could allow an atheist to lead a Christian group, a man to lead a woman’s group or a Jew to lead a Muslim group, the news network noted.
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