The Alliance Defense Fund has written a letter to Georgetown University asking officials there to reconsider their decision to ban several national and international Christian student organizations because the groups are too evangelical.
Georgetown University, which boasts a tradition of more than 200 years of Jesuit and Catholic teachings, recently sent letters to half a dozen evangelical Christian organizations telling them they no longer are welcome.
If the school feels like these groups are undermining Catholic theology then I guess I understand, but before I give them a pass I must point out an obvious flaw. Georgetown tossed these groups, but left the Muslim Student Alliance and the Jewish Student Alliance intact. Now I have a problem!
Georgetown's explanation has varied: It told the groups in the letter it was going a "different direction." Then it told subsequent news reports that there was a failure in "communication." It also has said, through spokesman Erik Smulson, that the chaplaincy recently was reorganized and it wanted more control over ministries on campus. The Washington Post also reported that the key issue was "whether those in the groups proselytize."
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