Daren, excellent analysis on yesterday’s campus police/religion NC Supreme Court ruling. I wrote about the situation after the appellate decision last year. Back then I was concerned that the courts would be getting into the business of deciding “How much Bible is too much?” in our state’s private colleges and universities.
Based on the ruling, it appears that we won’t have to worry about that as long as the police enforce only secular laws:
The Campus Police Act’s provision of secular, neutral, and nonideological police protection for the benefit of the students, faculty, and staff of Davidson College, as applied to defendant’s conviction for driving while impaired, does not offend the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
A good day for justice, I’d say. I wonder if Campbell and Pfeiffer, the two other universities affected by the overturned precedent, will reinstate their own police forces now?
