Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a political watchdog group, has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Liberty University violated its nonprofit status by using the university’s student newspaper to influence the outcome of an election for the state’s House of Delegates, reports The News & Advance. Americans United called for a similar investigation last May, after Liberty revoked the status of the student Democratic Party club. The next month, the university made both the Republican and Democratic student groups unofficial campus clubs. The Lynchburg, Va., university was founded by the religious conservative Jerry Falwell and is now led by his son, Jerry Falwell Jr.
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2 Responses to Americans United v. Liberty U., Round 2
badger74 - February 23, 2010 at 3:52 pm
I can think of hundreds of college newspapers that make political endorsements. Why are they trying to file another ineffective suit against LU. Politics???
lexalexander - February 24, 2010 at 9:05 am
The linked article doesn’t explain exactly what the newspaper supposedly did to draw AU’s ire, unfortunately.If all the newspaper did was editorially endorse a candidate, there’s no issue, and I would hope Americans United is smart and experienced enough to know that. Without knowing anything more about this particular case than what is published here and in the linked article, my personal experience with both AU and Falwell’s people leads me to suspect that whatever this was involved more than mere editorial endorsement.I stand prepared to be corrected if more information surfaces, of course.