The Georgetown ban

Georgetown University, a Jesuit school pretending to be a Catholic one, has kicked six Evangelical student groups off campus. I'm hearing that the problem is the Evangelical students didn't want to kowtow to the official Protestant ministers appointed by the university, who are, I'm told, quite liberal. Jody Bottum's got the best take on this, but what it comes down to is that Georgetown isn't giving the Evangelicals the boot because they're not Catholic; it's giving them the boot because they are Christian. As Bottum puts it:

There’s an obvious irony here—employed too often to be surprising—in which people begin by protesting in the name of diversity against centralized authority, and later discover, once they’re in charge, how useful those old forms of authority can be in controlling diversity.