Rarely have we seen a religious group as the cause of family disturbances, though we have frequently seen people use the religious group as an excuse rather than facing existing differences within the family unit. On the other hand, there is a very real problem that has manifested sporadically on campuses around the world. It is not a major problem in the sense that a lot of people are effected by it or that it hits more than one or two campuses every year, but nevertheless it is a real problem. College students are at the primary age when people change their religions, and campuses provide a large attractive pool of potential recruits that new religious groups find difficult to resist. Most of the future leaders are on campus and many groups suffer from lack of leadership material.
Campuses are one of the natural places for different religions to operate.
In one sense, having the varied religious groups manifesting on our campuses in the long run serves the educational process in that many students come to us with a rather narrow background. The different religious groups further expose them to the real world in which they will be living. The problem comes when over zealous religious missionaries take advantage for what amounts to a captive audience. It is, of course, a fine line between employees having the right freely to speak about their religious convictions and their using their position as their proselytizing lever. In like measure, there is a fine line between someone from off-campus visiting regularly with an acquaintance who shares their religious faith, and their turning publicly owned university space into their private auxiliary chapel.