Word: christian
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Officials at Wisconsin's flagship university have urged the high court to rely on a ruling involving the University of Virginia four years ago. In that case, the justices said the school breached the First Amendment by refusing to provide funds for a student Christian magazine even though it subsidized nonreligious student publications. The court ruled that when a university sets up a general policy for disbursing student activity funds, that fund becomes the equivalent of a public forum, and the university must subsidize secular and religious publications on the same basis...
More importantly, the current FDO policy recognizes the genuine, heartfelt religious faith of many incoming students, Christian and otherwise. These students are probably not rare--at least, 83 percent of Americans call themselves Christians, and 65 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage...
...instance, the much-criticized BGLTSA postering campaign during Coming Out Week aimed to shock all decent students, but none so much as Christians. Posters like "Every Tenth Jesus is Gay," "St. Sebastian: the first fag in the military" and "I praise the good Lord with my wet, quivering clitoris," could serve no other purpose besides insulting and intimidating the faithful. But as disgruntled undergraduates, prospective students and bubbly tour groups milled through the Yard, the signs remained. If gays were to face the abuse they heap indiscriminately on Christian students, one would not expect similar docility...
Unfortunately, several gay students and tutors have experienced similar abuse in the form of hateful graffiti. A veritable uproar of indignation has followed news of the graffiti, and rightly so. The one or more confused and decidedly un-Christian people responsible for it should be punished severely when caught. But, honestly, the graffiti was no more obscene (how could it be?) than the BGLTSA flyers posted across Harvard Yard...
Thoughtful gay activists want nothing more than for religious objectors to reconsider their convictions. This ascendant breed of impassioned and often arational dialogue, however, makes it extremely difficult for Christian students to sort out their thoughts on homosexuality...