Liberty censors again

Liberty University just shut down its latest form of free speech, closing the college Democrat club. As a school that says it is training Christians to be successful in all areas of life, the place is pretty restrictive on what it tries to keep students from talking about.

Students are going to vote for Barack Obama, and they're going to have different ideas than the administration; they're people, not robots. Funny how a school that adheres to a religion celebrating the dichotomy of a sovereign God and man's free will feels the need to suppress anything that's not totally in line with its moral checklists.

Liberty wants to be the premier Christian university, but there are plenty of universities out there that allow, and even thrive with, views other than their preferred ones springing up on campus. The faith is better defended when challenged, and God is bigger than man-made laws and restrictions.

Liberty has the chance to become THE PLACE for young Christians, and their education, and the future of the religious right, for that matter. But censorship like this (and the stuff that's been going on in leadership down there, not to mention the heavy censorship of the joke of a newspaper) will only keep the school from taking off. Instead, you're going to get a student body that either goes with the flow and never challenges man's renditions of God's Word, or you'll get a wildly rebellious campus. Funny, but Liberty's basically made up of those two groups right now.

Side question: How many Liberty students live in "secular" cities such as Boston and New York and survive/thrive with the Liberty perspective? Has anyone done it? Is this lifestyle of censorship and single-mindedness feasible in the real world? Liberty's leadership has seen great things done for God on its campus, but it's always been under the wing of religious organization. How good is this system in reaching the rest of the world for Christ?