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Maryland College Hit With Second Lawsuit Over Rejecting Christian Students

A Maryland community college is again facing a lawsuit for rejecting a student due to his Christian faith.

The American Center for Law and Justice has filed suit against Community College of Baltimore County on behalf of Dustin Buxton after they denied him permission to enter their radiation therapy program.

Buxton had cited his faith during his interview as an applicant.

“During that interview in 2013, Dustin was asked by the CCBC interview panel, ‘What do you base your morals on?’ Dustin replied, ‘My faith,’” ACLJ attorney Michelle Terry outlined in a report this week. “His faith was not mentioned again, yet, in a written review of his interview, the program director, Adrienne Dougherty, stated that Dustin had lost points because ‘[Dustin] also brought up religion a great deal during the interview. Yes, this is a field that involves death and dying; but religion cannot be brought up in the clinic by therapist or students.’”

The ACLJ had filed suit against the same school for denying Brandon Jenkins entry into the same program because of his Christian beliefs.

California University System To Discriminate Against Christian Groups

The California State University system has openly announced they will be discriminating against Christian groups on their campuses.

The apparent attempt to drive Christians from their schools was exposed when InterVarsity Christian Fellowship lost their recognition at 23 schools in the state because they require their leadership to be Christians.

The California State University system issued an executive order in 2011 that reads “No campus shall recognize any fraternity, sorority, living group, honor society or other student organization that discriminates on the basis of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, color, age, gender, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation or disability.”  A spokesman for the CSU system said InterVarsity would not sign the agreement which meant a vehement anti-Christianist would have to be allowed in the group and run for leadership positions.

The organization showed no concern about infringing on the religious rights of the students.

InterVarsity spokesman Greg Jao said they will keep fighting on behalf of their student’s rights but that the hostile attack by the school system can be a benefit as well.

“Our campus access challenge is actually forcing us, or inviting us, to fully release the ministry into the hands of college students to say the best way students are going to hear the gospel is not by drawing them to a large group meeting—which we may or may not have access to—but in your dorm rooms, in your cafeterias, in your laboratories,” he said. “I think, most importantly, we’re mobilizing students to be missionaries. I’m convinced college students are there to be good students, absolutely, but also to be missionaries wherever they are.”

Christian Professor Wins Discrimination Case Against Public University

A Christian professor who was denied full professorship because of his conservative Christian beliefs has won a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.

Professor Mike Adams received the ruling against the University of North Carolina at Wilmington who refused to promote the associate criminology professor.  The school has been ordered to pay over $700,000 in legal fees.

Professor Adams has been fighting the school in court for over eight years because of their discrimination.  Adams, a former atheist that found Christ in 2000 and began to write a nationally syndicated column with conservative viewpoints, faced opposition from the liberal leaning leaders in his department.

Adams had received multiple awards for his teaching work and multiple accolades from colleagues.

Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom said that the school is still appealing the case and that the costs could go even higher.  They noted the judge’s ruling only covered the attorney’s fees in the case and that increased damage awards against the school could happen following the appeal.

UConn Professor Conducts Hostile Confrontation of Christians

A professor at the University of Connecticut took it upon himself to make a hostile confrontation of Christians who were street preaching on the campus.

James Boster, who is a Professor of Anthropology, spent two hours trying to make students leave the area where several evangelists were sharing the truth of Christ and handing out information regarding Scripture.

At one point, Boster ran up to one of the evangelists and began swearing in his face.  Boster stood just inches away from the preacher and shouted that the man was ignorant for his belief in Christ.

Boster started chants of “Hail Darwin” and demanded to know if Christians in the area had accepted Darwin as their lord and savior.

Boster defended himself in an e-mail to Christian News Network saying that Darwin’s message that all humans are brothers and sisters and all mammals are our cousin is closer to the gospels than the preachers who were telling students to turn from their sin and accept Jesus.

The University of Connecticut released a statement saying the professor’s actions were unacceptable.

“Everyone has a right to exercise free speech on our campuses,” the school said to NBC.  “At the same time, we expect our faculty to act in a way that promotes civil discourse and to express themselves respectfully.  The use of abusive language and the confrontational posture seen here are inconsistent with UConn values.”