Should everyone at public colleges be forced to follow anti-bias rules? More specifically, should student groups have the right to restrict membership based on their beliefs?
I do not believe that public colleges should force anti-bias rules upon the clubs, I feel that it takes away from allowing the clubs to be run independently by the students. I feel that if the school wants to force these anti-bias rules they should be the ones responsible for putting the clubs together and making sure that they run smoothly. I believe that the each individual club should be able to deny membership someone who does not share the same views as the group does, or as in this example where the Christian Group is not allowing lesbian and gay people in the group. I say that it is okay because one of the core believes of Christian is that homosexuality is not allowed for any reason. McConnell Said that “the Christian Legal Society is seeking only to deny membership based on applicants' beliefs, not on their race.” I feel that this is how every club should be allowed to run as long as they are not discriminating to a person because of their race or because of their social or economic background.
I agree, very good points
ReplyDeleteYou make good points for this side of the argument but i feel like if the club is funded by the public school then its not really fair that they can make more rules that go against the school..
ReplyDeleteI compltley agree, i couldn't have said it better myslef.
ReplyDeleteyou do make great points! but i think if they wanted to exclude people from their club they could just make a club outside of their public college thats not funded by it. If it were a christian school it would be a whole different story but this is a public school open to anyone and everyone including lesbiens and gays.
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