Recently, Agape Press (http://www.agapepress.org/) reported on a decision by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (http://www.state.co.us/cche) to refuse to extend state-funded aid to students of Colorado Christian University (http://www.ccu.edu/) because they are "pervasively sectarian." Duh?
Wouldn't the CCHE need to "establish" a pseudo-church template in order to know when some group is deviating? And if that is true, isn't there something in our Constitution called "the Estabslihment Clause"?
Now let me see if I understand this, if PETA established a university to promote their world-view and educate students in the science of urban terrorism that would be okay? Again, isn't there something in the Constutution called "the Equal Protection Clause"?
The framers of our Constitution clearly intended that the federal and state governments keep their hands off the doctrines and disciplines of religious entities to the extent they don't violate criminal law. The same framers clearly intended the Constitution be a document which extended the same rights and restrictions to everyone.
Maybe I'm just pervasively simple-minded but it seems to me this Commission on Higher Education could use some.
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