‘We are better prepared than ever to work toward restoring the ‘marketplaces of ideas’ that these academic institutions were intended to be.’
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has received a $9.2 million grant to help fund the fight for religious freedom at public universities and colleges.
ADF will match the gift.
David French, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, said Christians shouldn’t be discriminated against.
“Many colleges and universities across the nation have enacted unconstitutional policies and practices,” he said, “censoring Christian speech, banning Christian groups from campus and punishing professors and students.
“More than 70 percent of these institutions have restrictive speech policies that are in direct violation of the First Amendment,” French said. “We are now in full throttle to drive this form of censorship off publicly funded campuses for good.”
ADF’s University Project, will use the funding, to transform American college and university campuses into places where religious expression is welcomed. The group will do that by offering free legal help where those freedoms have been violated.
“Thanks to this extremely generous gift,” French said, “we are better prepared than ever to work toward restoring the ‘marketplaces of ideas’ that these academic institutions were intended to be.”
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Learn more about the Alliance Defense Fund’s Center for Academic Freedom.
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