Source: The News And Advance
By Ray Reed
Published: May 21, 2009
Liberty University has revoked its recognition of the campus Democratic Party club, saying “we are unable to lend support to a club whose parent organization stands against the moral principles held by” the university.
“It kind of happened out of nowhere,” said Brian Diaz, president of LU’s student Democratic Party organization, which LU formally recognized in October.
Diaz said he was notified of the school’s decision May 15 in an e-mail from Mark Hine, vice president of student affairs.
According to the e-mail, the club must stop using the university’s name, holding meetings on campus, or advertising events. Violators could incur one or more reprimands under the school’s Liberty Way conduct code, and anyone who accumulates 30 reprimands is subject to expulsion.
http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/lu_pulls_plug_on_democratic_club/16172Contact Info for Brian Diaz, President of Liberty U's College Democrat's:
bodiaz@liberty.edu
Please e-mail the young man, and tell him you support the group, and it's goals.
I have an idea... picketers carrying signs saying "No Liberty at Liberty U," or, "Jesus was a Liberal Jew!"
I would NOT want any of the 30 or so Liberty U stutdents who participated in the College Democrats Club to participate... but surely there has to be a local activist group or two willing to get some press coverage to aid these young men and women.
I called Congressman Rep. Thomas Perriello's 5th Congressional district office in Virginia... Perriello is a democrat whose district is right accross the river from Lynchburg and they are already aware of this afront to Christian democrats.
I urge someone, anyone, from Virginia to get this ball rolling, and make this issue NAITONAL - this bastardization of our Christian faith shoulod not stand. Not unlike Osama bin Laden, these looney zealots are hijacking one of the world's great religions. While the school has every right to do what it chooses to do in it's own interests, Christians and democrats have the same right to act in their own self intersts - and right now that means to speak out against this atrocity.
Rep. Thomas Perriello's 5th Congressional district office
Washington DC Office
1520 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4711
Fax: (202) 225-5681