Anti-bias policies drive some religious groups off campuses

[JimG]

you cant force a university to change its policies for you–the world does not revolve around you. “school’s non-discrimination policy that bars student groups from requiring their leaders to hold specific beliefs.” this would apply to an atheist group as well. whining about something like this makes people look petty, and bigoted.

And I’m saying that an Atheist campus group led by Catholics would be equally as ridiculous as a Jewish campus group led by Mormons.

Universities discriminate every day. Unless they allow anyone to enroll and attend any class. Do they give grades? That’s discrimination. Do they have admission standards? That’s discrimination. Discrimination, as I mentioned before, is a good thing. Being able to discriminate among various things is one of the things universities teach. Do physcis departments discriminate between chemistry and alchemy? Or must they treat both as equal?

There are only a few discriminants which are not legal to use in particular situations, such as race, or gender, or religion. (Do campuses even provide separate bathrooms anymore, or is that discriminatory? I know it’s sex discrimination. Still, I always thought it was a good thing.)

And even the legally prohibited discriminant of religion doesn’t make sense in some cases–as here, for example, with respect to campus religious groups. Campus religious groups are discriminatory by their very nature! It would make more sense to simply prohibit religious groups, since the anti-discrimination regulations make them meaningless.

But the campus quantum physics club is also discriminatory, unless it allows philosophy majors and political science majors to join and become leaders of the group.