(AgapePress) - A University of Pennsylvania professor says Christian student groups are increasingly becoming the target of discrimination on college and university campuses.

Recently, Rutgers University barred InterVarsity Christian Fellowship from using campus facilities and student fees because the campus ministry does not allow non-Christians to serve in leadership positions. In response, the group sued the university, saying no religious group can maintain its unique character unless its leadership positions are reserved for fellow believers. [See Related Article]

Alan Charles Kors is president of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, which has filed a lawsuit against Rutgers. Kors says such discrimination cases are extremely common and tend to come in two forms.

"A Christian evangelical student organization will ask that its leadership has to agree with the purposes and Christian mission and beliefs of the organization -- and that will be deemed to be 'religious discrimination,' as if other people weren't free to form their own organizations," he says.

Kors says another common case would involve a Christian student group under attack for holding to a biblical view of sexuality. "This will often be taken as discrimination against homosexuals at a university," he says, "and the organization [will be] cut off from funding, recognition, and use of campus facilities."

Kors says the very generation that, when it was young, said "Don't trust anyone over 30," has now changed its motto to "Don't trust anyone under 30."

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