{"id":4001,"date":"2012-10-25T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2012-10-25T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:30:55","slug":"yet-another-new-england-campus-is-hostile-to-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/2012\/10\/yet-another-new-england-campus-is-hostile-to-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another New England Campus Is Hostile to Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just saw this from\u00a0<em>World<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The student-led judiciary at Tufts University, in Medford, Mass., voted last week to revoke official recognition for Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF), the largest evangelical group on campus. Complaints from a group formed to challenge TCF\u2019s presence on campus prompted the judiciary\u2019s decision. Members of the Tufts Coalition Against Religious Exclusion accused TCF of violating the school\u2019s nondiscrimination policy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoncampus.com\/2012\/10\/tufts_christian_group_fighting_bias_claims\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the whole report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting\u2013and deeply disturbing\u2013to see the noose tightening on Christian groups in the secular northeast. \u00a0Read this story, be aware of it, and be part of the movement to oppose this kind of discrimination. \u00a0Christians are not hateful, and we deserve the right in this country to stand up for our beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this from\u00a0World magazine: The student-led judiciary at Tufts University, in Medford, Mass., voted last week to revoke official recognition for Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF), the largest evangelical group on campus. Complaints from a group formed to challenge TCF\u2019s presence on campus prompted the judiciary\u2019s decision. 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