College Dean Refuses To Stand by After School Bans Chick-fil-A on Campus
A dean at New Jersey’s Rider University will no longer be in a position of leadership next fall after resigning her post to protest the school’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A because the Christian fast-food chain is supposedly at odds with the university’s values of “inclusion.”
According to Campus Reform, students were sent a survey last spring to determine which restaurant they wanted to bring to campus — Chick-fil-A was the No. 1 choice, but the school decided to ban the restaurant anyway.
In November, the university sent an email to students claiming that Chick-fil-A’s “values have not sufficiently progressed enough to align with those of Rider,” adding that the school was trying to promote “inclusion for all people.”
That’s a ridiculous position on its face, because banning a restaurant over its Christian values is the opposite of “inclusive.”
The university is using the typical liberal trick of being exclusive of Christians under the guise of “inclusiveness.”
Thankfully, someone is taking a stand against the madness. Rider’s College of Business Dean Cynthia Newman decided she wouldn’t stand by while the university pushed an anti-Christian agenda.
The dean announced her resignation last month, though she will remain at Rider in a teaching position. She cited her faith as her reason for no longer being part of the school’s administration.
“As some of you already know, I am a committed follower of Jesus Christ,” Newman said in her announcement, according to Campus Reform.
“As such, I endeavor every day to do exactly what Chick-fil-A puts forward as its overarching corporate value: to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to me and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with me.”
Newman told Campus Reform on Monday that she felt like she was “punched in the stomach” by the university’s decision because she’s “a very committed Christian.”
Check out her interview with Campus Reform below. It’s an eye-opening view of what life in the academic bubble looks like, but it was about the 8-minute mark, where Newman was asked what advice she had for other academics, or anyone in a similar situation, that Newman summed up the situation perfectly:
“You’re the one that has to live in the world that’s around you,” she said. “If you feel something is not right in that world, you have an obligation to stand up and to say what your perspective is on that.”
Chick-fil-A has been under relentless assault from liberals after its CEO, Dan Kathy, said that marriage is between a man and a woman in 2012.
But liberals conveniently ignore the restaurant’s track record of helping those in need, such as paying its workers for community service while a store was being remodeled.
The company is also known to help out when devastating natural disasters strike.
Chick-fil-A isn’t the evil boogeyman liberals want it to be — it’s simply a company that is run on Christian values, and as we already know, the left doesn’t like Christians.
Rider University’s decision is deeply insulting to Christians because there would be no reason to ban the restaurant unless the school was intentionally targeting Christians and their faith.
Newman’s resignation as dean becomes effective Aug. 31, according to Campus Reform. She will remain on campus as a marketing professor, but she will no longer be party to the university’s administration.
“I am not willing to compromise my faith and Christian values and I will not be viewed as being in any way complicit when an affront is made to those values,” Newman said told Campus Reform.
That shouldn’t be a choice anyone has to make.
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