D.A. Carson writes:
“What is so interesting, however, is the way in which universities, historically the bastions of free speech and free thinking, have repeatedly, in the name of tolerance, exhibited remarkable intolerance. In the case of Edinburgh University, for instance, the authorities banned the CU (Christian Union) from meeting on campus to discuss sexual ethics, on the ground that the orthodox Christian view is offensive to homosexuals. In one case the situation became so ludicrous that even the liberal newspaper the Guardian became sympathetic to the CU, opening its editorial pages to an essay by Richard Cunningham, director of UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship). Cunningham wrote, “G.K. Chesterton once said that, ‘The purpose of an open mind is the same as that of an open mouth –to close it again on something solid.” If ‘open mindedness’ is being defined as a refusal to make judgments about religious truth and sexual ethics (for instance) then we are prone to contacting a form of intellectual lock jaw.’”
“What is so interesting, however, is the way in which universities, historically the bastions of free speech and free thinking, have repeatedly, in the name of tolerance, exhibited remarkable intolerance. In the case of Edinburgh University, for instance, the authorities banned the CU (Christian Union) from meeting on campus to discuss sexual ethics, on the ground that the orthodox Christian view is offensive to homosexuals. In one case the situation became so ludicrous that even the liberal newspaper the Guardian became sympathetic to the CU, opening its editorial pages to an essay by Richard Cunningham, director of UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship). Cunningham wrote, “G.K. Chesterton once said that, ‘The purpose of an open mind is the same as that of an open mouth –to close it again on something solid.” If ‘open mindedness’ is being defined as a refusal to make judgments about religious truth and sexual ethics (for instance) then we are prone to contacting a form of intellectual lock jaw.’”
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