The Capital Times:

A Christian organization at the University of Wisconsin-Superior has filed suit against the university, claiming it wrongly de-recognized its campus chapter.

The university notified the campus chapter of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that it could not be recognized for the current school year because it required its leaders to take a religious vow. The UW System has stated that under a United States Supreme Court decision, it cannot allow student organizations to discriminate.

The chapter has about 50 members and has been active on the UW-Superior campus for about 40 years.

The group noted in a written statement that only its elected student leaders are required to take the vow.

The university's policy, the group said in the statement, "violates simple logic: an organization must be able to choose leaders that identify with its goals and its reason for existence. It would be just as inappropriate to require the Young Democrats to allow Republicans as their leaders or women's sports clubs to be led by male members."

The fear-producing narrative I hear from the left, in countless books released this year alone, is that the "religious right" is intent on "taking over" America with a "radical" agenda. But the simple fact is that these Christians are doing and believing what they've done and believed for centuries. To the contrary, it is their opponents who are promoting a new, coercive, and radical agenda.

IVCF's leadership requirements -- which simply require leaders be Christians (that's the "C" in IVCF) -- are nothing new or unusual. Nor has the law changed: to the contrary, World Magazine notes UW officials were clearly "ignoring judicial precedents."

What is relatively new is the radical climate of intolerance at universities, and the argument that allowing a Christian group to meet on campus is a form of "discrimination." This is happening to IVCF chapters around the country, and also to another Christian group in the UK.