Australia: Christian Union discriminates when only Christians can be members
English: Logo of the University of Sydney Union as at July 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Now student leaders at the University of Sydney have threatened to deregister a student society called the Evangelical Union on the basis that its requirement members believe in Jesus is discriminatory. Yep, that’s right: the world of student politics has become so instinctively illiberal that even the idea of a Christian society being made up only of Christians freaks out these bossy bureaucrats. So unversed are today’s student radicals in the history of freedom that they think a group of like-minded people getting together to share their beliefs is a foul form of separatism when actually it’s a little thing we like to call freedom of association . The EU ’s constitution says members must sign a statement declaring faith in “the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour”. And according to the University of Sydney Union , limiting the membership or leadership of societies to “those who ascribe