How is Georgetown U. like China?

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on September 1, 2006

Both of them require government (campus or state) control over Christian groups. Or did, Georgetown has kicked six protestant Christian groups off campus.

Officials of the Catholic university said that they felt unable to keep track of precisely how the groups were ministering to students and that group officials had not attended school-run religious services as they were required to. School spokesman Erik Smulson characterized the decision as administrative, saying Georgetown wants to boost its own programs for Protestant students, who make up a fifth of the student population.

But students and officials with the private ministry groups said the Campus Ministry in recent years has become more controlling and concerned about evangelizing. The groups were required to sign statements saying they would not proselytize, said Kevin Offner, who runs the InterVarsity group at Georgetown for graduate students.

Ah yes, those pesky proselytizing Christians. For the record -- neither Muslim nor Jewish student groups have been kicked off campus. You'd think a Catholic University would be a little more tolerant -- but you'd be wrong.

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