Is Vanderbilt paying Carol Swain back for 2011?

One wonders.

In 2011 Vanderbilt got bad press around the country for its outrageous decision to kick off campus four student religious groups: the Christian Legal Society (CLS), Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Graduate Christian Fellowship, and Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity.

Their crime? They held to the common-sensical idea that their leaders should share the beliefs of the group.

Why would Vanderbilt be opposed to this?  Because one of their beliefs was that same-sex practice is morally wrong.

Carol Swain was the faculty advisor to the CLS group, and single-handedly led students in their opposition to this crazy, discriminatory policy.  For more, see this.

Now, four years later, students who have never taken a class from Swain claim she discriminates against students.  They say she is “hateful” because she has written against radical Islam and gay marriage.

Vanderbilt’s chancellor recently encouraged students calling for Swain’s ouster.

Might there be a connection between Swain’s exposing Vanderbilt’s intolerance of orthodox Christian student groups  in 2011 and Vanderbilt’s recent encouragement of student intolerance of Swain herself?

As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.