No Meddlin’ Allowed

I’ve copied the following in its entirety from Colorado Family Action, because its so terribly important that we act on thiis now:

Urgent: Contact Your Colorado Representative!!

The Colorado state legislators are meddling again in private interests that they have no business regulating, in particular religious institutions.

Senate Bill 167 would force all private colleges, bible colleges, and seminaries, to receive formal approval by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). This commission would be given the authority to determine if a private college is accredited based on policies they have created. SB 167 bill goes on to give the CCHE the right to revoke a private college’s authorization if the school fails to gain accreditation.

But potentially the most devastating effect of this bill would be that students have the ability to file complaints based on a failure to provide the educational services for which the student enrolled with the CCHE. The Commission can then drag the our religious universities through litigation and revoke their academic accreditation if they wished.

It is this continued attempt to regulate religious institutions that liberal legislators see as their responsibility. However, taking away a religious institutions right to determine its own curriculum is unconstitutional. We can not let our private schools be intimidated into educating students based on what the state government dictates.

Despite our attempts, SB 167 was passed in the Senate and has now been sent to the House for vote. It is your duty to tell your Representatives that you do not wish for our religious universities to be subject to further government imposed regulation.