‘University of Sydney evangelical students vote to keep Jesus’

Posted on March 26, 2016 
Filed under Culture wars, Opinion

chappo-1980-sueu“An evangelical student group has refused to remove a vow to Jesus from its constitution despite being threatened with deregistration from the Sydney University student body.

The Sydney University Evangelical Union was issued an ultimatum by university’s student union last week to remove a requirement that new members sign ‘Jesus is Lord’ or be deregistered from the university…”

– Eryk Bashaw reports in The Sydney Morning Herald.

See also Enlightenment is just so yesterday at university by Brendan O’Neil, in The Australian –

“If there were a prize for the most Orwellian action of the year (there really should be), the USU would surely win.

The student union has given the EU until March 31 to overhaul its constitution. But the EU is fighting back: this week its members voted by a whopping 71 to 1 against changing its membership rules to suit the tastes of the interfering union.

… If ruling bodies, whether the state or a student union that wields power on campus, can use pressure or threats to make private associations rewrite their constitutions, which is the soul of all institutions, then we enter into very dark territory indeed.”

(Photo: Chappo – this photo of him was taken during the 1980 SUEU Mission – would be cheering the EU. Hear him speak at a 1979 SUEU lunchtime meeting on “Jesus claims to be the only way to God”.)