NC State: Christian Group Must Obtain Permit to Talk to Other Students
[NC State: Christian Group Must Obtain Permit to
Talk to Other Students by Veronica Neffinger] "North Carolina State University
is requiring a Christian group to obtain a permit before speaking to other
students on campus.
According to Fox News’s Todd Starnes, Grace Christian
Life, a student group registered at NC State, has filed a lawsuit against the
school, alleging that the school discriminated against them by requiring them to
obtain a permit and restricting their free speech rights.
Starnes reports that in September 2015, the group was
told that they had to stop approaching students in order to engage in religious
discussions unless they obtained a permit to do so.
“It’s an amazingly broad speech restriction,” Alliance
Defending Freedom attorney Tyson Langhofer told Starnes. “Public universities
are supposed to be the marketplace of ideas, not places where students need a
permit just to exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms.”
Alliance Defending Freedom also says that the
Christian group was singled out by the university which did not target other
groups.
“The University has not restricted the ability of
other students and student groups to engage in expressive activity,” the lawsuit
states. “Grace has witnessed other students, student groups and off-campus
groups handing out literature either without a permit or outside of the area
reserved by their table permit.”
Grace Christian Life student president Hannalee Alrutz
told Starnes in an interview that “Colleges are supposed to be places where
ideas are freely shared – not gagged. The only permit a student needs to speak
on campus is the First Amendment.”
NC State: Christian Group Must Obtain Permit to Talk to Other Students
Jn 8:36,
Matt. 28:19,
20,
Jn 15:18
NC State: Christian Group Must Obtain Permit to Talk to Other Students