Christian university denies conservative students’ request to form campus club

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame

Faculty leaders at Samford University – a private Christian university in Alabama – have temporarily denied a request from conservative students to form a campus club due to the “inflammatory” wording of their founding documents.  The students had sought to launch a Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the school, but an email to the students from Shannon Ashe, the chair of the Campus Life Committee, explained why that request has been rejected – for now.  “We are looking for the YAF student group to amend or justify the inflammatory language listed in its Purpose,” Ashe told the student leading the effort to launch the club in a Nov. 15 email. At issue is some wording in the Sharon Statement, which helped launch the conservative movement in the 1960s. It also serves as a founding document for every YAF campus chapter across the country.......To Read More....