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Originally Posted by Russ D
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Sigh ....
I could go on at great length about this, especially as we faced the same issues when I was at University. Our solution was simple, we just refused to be affiliated to the Students' Union in the first place. It really wasn't a hardship, the funding for clubs and societies was so small it would only have paid for one or two guest speakers a year anyway.
There was no human rights Act back in the early 1990s of course, so it would have been more difficult to argue that we were being discriminated against by being denied the right to ensure the people running the CU were actually Christians. But to be honest, I think they would be better off without the Union anyway. Why on earth would a Christian society wish to be ultimately responsible to the non-Christian exec committee of the Students' Union anyway?
What I think is much sadder is the footnote - two CUs at the university, one affilliated to the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship and one not. I think the Christians at Hull should spend more time focusing on their own unity and a little less time picking fights with the Students Union.