Famously liberal Religion News Service gave an unintentionally apt title to a recent article: “Duke University’s student government rejects Young Life over LGBTQ policies.” It would have been even more apt had they not capitalized “Young Life.”
The story is an old one by now: supposedly tolerant university decides that, in the wake of the sexual revolution, the standard Christian morality that has been a cornerstone of two millennia of Western civilization is no longer to be tolerated.
Not surprising, since Duke University is a very prominent academic institution, and therefore expected to yield immediately to inane cultural movements.
Interestingly, Duke’s motto is Eruditio et Religio, “Knowledge/Learning and Faith.”
The eruditio is hard to dispute, but I have a question about the religio–namely, what religion would that be? Not the Methodism of the school’s history. Some sort of paganism, apparently.
In their privileging of sexual deviancy above Young Life, Duke’s student government has shown they do not understand what will really nourish the minds and souls of young lives.
One more reminder that secularism is a mask for anti-Christian ideologies, and not the neutral force it pretends to be.
