Academic and Corporate Wokeness: The Real Threat to Religious Freedom

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04/24/19

 

“Our country is changing rapidly, unfortunately not for the good. For those who would like to keep informed on the PC madness that is sweeping across college campuses in the US, I refer you to these two websites.

the college fix    campus reform  ”

 

In February, the Yale Law School chapter of the Federalist Society invited Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom to speak on campus.

 

This, to put it mildly, didn’t go over well with some of the law school’s more “woke” students. Using talking points straight from the Southern Poverty Law Center, students protested Waggoner’s visit, calling the ADF a “homophobic, transphobic hate group.”

 

If that’s all that had happened, it would “merely” have been yet another example of progressive intolerance. However, the way things escalated makes clear how serious the on-campus threats to religious freedom have become, and just where those threats are coming from.

 

The protesters not only protested, they had a list of demands, including that Yale Law would make it “more difficult for students to work at ‘discriminatory’ organizations” like ADF and that the school would “consider denying admission to applicants who worked on certain religious liberty efforts before law school.”

 

Read More: BreakPoint: Academic and Corporate Wokeness – Break Point