Campus Crusade Against Christianity By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham for CNS News
A new survey of college students by the liberal-leaning Knight Foundation shows the future of the First Amendment doesn’t look so bright in America. It found 41 percent said “hate speech” should not be protected by the Constitution. Only 58 percent thought it should.
In fact, a 2017 survey out of UCLA found that out of 1,500 college students who were asked whether “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment, only 39 percent correctly said yes. On campus today, it can be defined as “unsafe” to hear an opinion you don’t like. Unwelcome speech is compared to a physical attack.
Make no mistake. The Thought Police are gaining ground, dangerously.
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The central question is what qualifies as “hate speech”? The standards can shift quickly. The Knight Foundation poll found that 68 percent of students believe the campus climate prevents students from expressing their opinions because of fears they might offend other classmates.
The irony is inescapable. So many of them support the censorship they claim to abhor.
We’ve all heard story after story about students protesting those horrible right-wing speakers like Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice for daring to set foot on campus. These same radicals regularly try to end the careers of professors found to be extremists for things such as seeing no problem in little white girls dressing as a Disney character “of color,” like Mulan or Tiana, for Halloween.
Yale University seems to be the new True North for political intolerance, and here comes yet another episode in an endless list of grievances from the $72,000-a-year-tuition oppressed. An LGBTQ advocacy group called the Outlaws is furious that Yale’s Federalist Society invited a lawyer from a so-called “hate group,” the Alliance Defending Freedom, to discuss the case of Colorado baker Jack Phillips’s refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. For the record, ADF is one of the most respected organizations in the conservative movement today, which is why it qualifies as a hate group. In a sympathetic response, Yale Law School is creating a policy to stop providing stipends or loan forgiveness to students who work for organizations that defend traditional Christian views on sexual ethics.
