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Are university campuses hostile to religious views?

By Alliance Alert

NPR: "Contrary to the stereotype that most scientists are atheists, [Elaine Howard Ecklund] says, nearly half of them say they are religious. But when she did follow up interviews, she found they practice a 'closeted faith.' 'They just do not want to bring up that they are religious in an academic discussion. There's somewhat of almost a culture of suppression surrounding discussions of religion at these kinds of academic institutions,' Ecklund says . . . 'The secular public schools are almost becoming, for lack of a better term, quasi-religious in their outlook and devotion to one particular worldview and excluding all those who disagree,' [ADF Attorney David French] says."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).