Tennessee Wants to Punish Vanderbilt for a Nondiscrimination Policy

A bill going through the Tennessee legislature would take away the right for Vanderbilt University police to make arrests.



The reason? The Tennessee Family Action Council, an Evangelical Christian group says that the University’s nondiscrimination policy discriminates against religious Christians.



How? Because the policy forces campus sanctioned Christian organizations to allow gay people to join them. The state pulling the University’s police force would be a kind of sanction against Vande...