U.S. university sued for ordering campus Christian group to get permit before it can talk about Jesus to students

Jul 4, 2016 by

by Jonah Hicap, Christian Today:

The North Carolina State University is facing a lawsuit from a Christian student group over its policy that requires students to get a permit before they can talk to anyone about Jesus.

Grace Christian Life has filed the lawsuit against the university after its officials barred members of the group last September from approaching other students in the Talley Student Union building to engage in religious talks with them or invite them to attend events.

They got a permit to set up a table in the student union last January and were allowed to speak to other students anywhere in the room. However, when members left the table to talk to students, a member of the Student Involvement Office approached and told them that they must stay behind the table, said the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is representing the group in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit pointed out that the university did not impose the same restriction on other groups as evidenced by observations and documentations by Grace Christian Life members who saw other groups freely speaking with other students and handing out flyers without a permit.

The university is citing its Speech Permit Policy as basis for its new policy, which the ADF is saying as unconstitutional.

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