3 Stories The Legacy Media Ignored This Week

Although the legacy media regularly hail Critical Race Theory proponents, left-wing feminists, and themselves, media coverage ignores that all these extremists have one thing in common: They’re losers. Faced with discouraging news of left-wing overreach, the legacy media ignored or misreported multiple stories this week that reveal the ways traditional citizens are winning the war against left-wing extremism everywhere from the universities to the halls of Congress and the offices of the Biden administration.

Here are three such stories:

1. Anti-Christian administrators at the University of Iowa must pay Christians $2 million for unconstitutional, anti-Christian viewpoint discrimination

The University of Iowa had to pay nearly $2 million in settlements to two Christian groups it attempted to kick off campus, because they held to traditional, Judeo-Christian moral teachings.

The university, as well as some administrators in their personal capacity, have been ordered to settle up with the university’s chapter of two Christian ministries: Business Leaders in Christ and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The ruling awards BLinC $1.37 million in attorneys’ costs, while IVF won $20,000 in real damages, in addition to more than half-a-million dollars in lawyers’ fees.

The controversy began when a homosexual student applied for a leadership position with Business Leaders in Christ, which turned him down because he could not endorse its statement of faith and beliefs, including its provision that marriage is exclusively the union of one man and one woman. He complained to the University of Iowa, which accused the Christian organization of violating the university’s Human Rights Policy and the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

A judge pointed out that the university targeted the evangelical business group while dozens of groups held similar views. Rather than reverse its discrimination, the university responded by deregistering 38 other student groups, including InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Hillel, and the Muslim Students Association.

While university officials banned students who believed their religions’ traditional moral teachings, administrators took no action against a campus group started by the student who was denied a leadership position with BLinC (a group he named “Love Works”), which requires its leaders to sign a “gay-affirming statement of Christian faith.” InterVarsity sued the university in 2018.

An Obama-appointed federal judge, Stephanie Rose, ruled that university officials violated students’ constitutional rights and denied them qualified immunity. That view was upheld by a Trump-appointed judge this summer.

“We are hard-pressed to find a clearer example of viewpoint discrimination,” wrote Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jonathan Allen Kobes, a Trump appointee, on behalf of a three-judge panel in July. “The University and individual defendants turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence or they proceeded full speed ahead knowing they were violating the law.”

In July, a federal judge ruled the university unconstitutionally “targeted religious groups for differential treatment under the human rights policy — while carving out exemptions and ignoring other violative groups with missions they presumably supported.”

Administrators at a public university, whose salaries are paid by taxpayers in conservative Iowa, felt they could silence Christians, Jews, and Muslims who believe in biblical morality. The effort backfired — and cost its perpetrators. It also changed the law.

In March 2019, Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed a law stating that “a public institution of higher education shall not deny any benefit or privilege to a student organization based on the student organization’s requirement that the leaders of the student organization agree to and support the student organization’s beliefs.”

Despite the significance of the ruling, a Google search turned up nothing from The New York Times, Reuters, NBC News, or CBS News.

The Washington Post and ABC News reprinted the Associated Press story, which buried the fact that “the university had violated their constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion” in the sixth paragraph. The absurd lead sentence — “A state panel agreed Monday to spend nearly $2 million to settle two federal lawsuits brought against the University of Iowa in 2017 after a religious group denied a gay student a leadership role” — makes it sound as though the university paid the damages because of the Christian groups’ actions against a homosexual student, not its unconstitutional act of moral imperialism.

This story shows that, even in a secular society, Christians can stand up for their faith’s unbroken 2,000-year-long moral teachings, fight for their constitutional rights against well-funded opponents, and win. No wonder the legacy media did everything they could to suppress it.

2. Leftists lose battle to force women into the military draft

An effort to force America’s young women to register for the military draft has been turned back, at least for now. Senate Democrats — and a few Republicans — included a provision that would potentially require women to join men in the ranks of the unwillingly enlisted in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass military funding bill.

Republican President Richard Nixon abolished the draft on January 27, 1973, but men aged 18 through 25 must still register with the Selective Service

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