The NYT on the latest moves against on-campus religious groups

"Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy," is the title of this piece in the Times, about the decision by Bowdoin College to cease "recognizing" the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship because the Fellowship has "refused to agree to the college’s demand that any student, regardless of his or her religious beliefs, should be able to run for election as a leader of any group, including the Christian association."

The piece is fair and informative, I think.  But, the policy it addresses is unwise, unfair, and contrary to its own purported goals of respecting pluralism and diversity.  And, as I have argued elsewhere, it reflects -- as do many other applications of the antidiscrimination norm to religious groups and associations -- a common but dangerous (to pluralism) misunderstanding of wrongful "discrimination."  There is nothing that a government-run university in a secular, liberal political community should regard and treat as "wrong" about a non-state association taking that association's mission, purpose, character, practices, aims, etc., into account when setting policies about membership and leadership.