(05-24-2013 11:24 AM)MU88 Wrote: I don't believe in many of the beliefs that Liberty supports. But, they should be free to express them without discrimination. However, while you spout off about as being for free speech and anti-discrimination, your views are are clearly discriminatory towards Liberty and their beliefs.
Voluntary membership associations are free to prefer not to associate with schools that practice religious and other discrimination. Yes, that practice is
itself "discrimination" in the generic meaning of exercising judgement, but not discrimination in the sense of discrimination
on the basis of something that shouldn't be taken into account.
So, if someone is applying for a job of bus driver, you generally shouldn't take their religion into account. If it is, on the other hand, a religion that forbids them from driving, the fact that their religious beliefs prevent them from performing the job actually is relevant. This is the "Amish Bus Driver" rule.
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, which is restriction on
the government taking action against you based on what you say, with certain narrowly bound exceptions (eg, yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater).
(05-24-2013 11:24 AM)MU88 Wrote: The criteria for admitting Liberty or any other school in a conference should depend on whether their athletic department is a good fit for the conference.
Why? Its a voluntary membership organization, the criteria for admitting Liberty or any other schools in a conference should depend on whatever the current full voting members of the conference
want to take into account. If they, for example, do not share the Big Ten's obsession with research performance and grad school status, but do value undergraduate education, that would be ample reason to set Liberty to one side. If they are institutions that agree on non-discrimination on religious or gender orientation grounds, and don't want to admit an actively discriminatory institution, that's well within their rights.