University Dean resigns after school bans chick-fil-A.

This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, March 7th, 2019.

Students at Rider University in New Jersey recently voted to bring Chick-fil-A to their campus.

However, administrators rejected the proposal because of the companies perceived opposition to the LGBTQ plus community.

Cynthia Newman, the dean of the college of business, felt like I had been punched in the stomach when I read that statement.

As a, quote, very committed Christian, she notes that Chick-fil-A's corporate purpose mirrors my personal beliefs perfectly.

She asked university officials privately if they would issue an apology.

They doubled down on their ban instead, even sending out another campus-wide email emphasizing

inclusion. So Dean Newman felt she had to resign. She has received great support from faculty

and staff agreeing that we should be able to respectfully disagree with other values.

Hers is not the only story of discrimination against Christians in today's news.

A former Marine and Graduate of the Naval Academy and the University of Cambridge has published

an article titled, I Thought It Could Be a Christian and Constitutionalist at Yale Law School.

I was wrong.

He describes the vociferous opposition he and other Christians have faced at Yale for their

conservative views. Unsurprisingly, David French has documented the degree to which

progressives drive religious conservatives off campus, all in the name of fighting extremism.

To be sure, Christians in America are not facing the persecution our brothers and sisters are

enduring in North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and other nations that imprison, torture,

and execute followers of Jesus.

But we are witnessing an escalating tide of opposition to biblical morality in our culture.

As I noted yesterday, many who support same-sex marriage see my commitment to biblical marriage

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