On May 23, 2019, the Family Research Council posted an article titled “A Tale of Two Yales.” In this piece, Tony Perkins and FRC senior writers lay out the details surrounding an alarming series of recent events whereby this Ivy League University’s law school has seemingly acquiesced to pressure from the school’s LGBTQ group, Outlaws, to stop offering financial aid to Christian students.
Targeting students that follow the Bible’s teachings on marriage and sexuality, campus leftists protested when the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) was invited to Yale’s Federalist Society to talk about the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission Supreme Court case.
The Washington Examiner reported that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has stepped up his investigation into Yale Law School over what he says are the school’s discriminatory actions against students with “traditional Christian views.”
Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee, sent the school a letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, on Monday demanding Yale hand over internal communications on the school’s treatment of its Christian and conservative students.
Last month, Cruz sent Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken a letter notifying her of his plans to investigate a new law school policy which Cruz said stemmed from “unconstitutional animus and a specific discriminatory intent both to blacklist Christian organizations and to punish Yale students whose values or religious faith lead them to work there.”
In the school’s defense, Dean Gerken said the university did nothing wrong. “Contrary to press reports, our policy does not single out any student based on religion. Instead, it is designed to protect all students, including Christians…”
Senator Cruz is quoted as saying, “Let’s hope she’s telling the truth because Yale receives large amounts of federal funds…”
It is interesting to note that, as the FRC article points out, “The third oldest college in America obviously doesn’t remember a lot from its roots, when a group of ministers founded the school to fight the growing liberalism at Harvard. Imagine what those church leaders would think now — 300 years later — when it’s not liberals being squeezed out of the campus, but Christians!”
This turn of events is worth keeping an eye on since, if all is as it appears at this point, it could very well be the beginning of a new method of discrimination against our constitutionally protected rights to worship as we choose. We should all earnestly hope that Senator Cruz can determine that Dean Gerken’s assessment of Yale’s policies is correct and that this beautiful and iconic school has not rolled over under pressure from left-leaning extremists.
