Baptist University granted exemption from discrimination laws
The Federal Government just granted Carson-Newman University a waiver that allows the school to ban gay students, unwed mothers, women who've had an abortion and even students who may be pregnant.
Dr. Randall O'Brien is the president of the private Southern Baptist college in Jefferson County. He says he sent a letter back in May asking to be exempt from Title 9, which says colleges are not allowed to discriminate against students. He said, "This is who we are our religious principles and in a changing world we want to reaffirm who we are and intend to be."
Dr. O'Brien told Local 8 News he filed for the waiver after his attorney advised him to do so. Anchor Lauren Davis asked him, "You're the president, you're not going to file anything unless you understand it." Dr. O'Brien responded, "Yeah I understood our legal council said it would further make us a Christian school."...