The University offers a good test case for the Religious Freedom Amendment. Amendment threatens U's religious balance T he University stands as an argument for religious freedom. Every spring and fall, public spaces on campus fill with ministers, preachers and laypeople announcing their faith, or the lack thereof. Students exercise their freedoms by hanging banners from Coffman Union.
Campus ministries are active and often work together.
Most students, most of the time, can take holy days off without sanction. This community usually lives up to the promises of the state and federal bills of rights. Religion here is free from both repression and coercion. The University is typical of public institutions in this regard, so the University offers a good test case for the Religious Freedom Amendment passed by a House committee last week. Proponents of the measure say that in the last 30 years courts have gone too far in separating church and state.