Sarah Stock: "My Christian university is shutting down my TPUSA chapter"

Sarah Stock: "My Christian university is shutting down my TPUSA chapter"

Vanguard University of Southern California, a private Christian institution, has unilaterally decided to shut down the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter founded on its campus by student Sarah Stock. The administrative justification—a new rule prohibiting "any political, ideological, or religious student organization"—is immediately revealed as a hypocritical farce by allowing identity-based clubs such as the Black Student Union or the Asian & Pacific Islander Club to continue operating. This is not an act of neutrality but an act of selective censorship and institutional cowardice, designed specifically to silence Christian students who, inspired by their faith, wish to engage in conservative political activism. While groups promoting leftist narratives under the umbrella of "culture" or "heritage" are tolerated and fostered, the sole voice advocating for free-market principles, national sovereignty, and biblical values in the public square is expelled.

Sarah Stock's conversation with President Michael Beals unmasked the true, even more concerning motivation: according to Beals, the school "does not want Christian students to base their identities on political convictions." This statement is theologically and politically bankrupt. It seeks to divorce faith from its inevitable public and social expression, reducing Christianity to a private devotion with no consequences in the world. It is the same mindset that has spiritually disarmed generations of believers and ceded cultural space to a militantly political secular left. The history of the Christian faith is replete with figures whose identity was deeply rooted in political convictions derived from their beliefs, from Wilberforce fighting slavery to civil rights leaders. Telling students to stand aside betrays the biblical mandate to be "salt and light" in the midst of society.

This shutdown is not an isolated incident but part of an alarming pattern of ideological purges on Christian campuses, as demonstrated by the simultaneous case at Point Loma Nazarene University. There appears to be a coordinated directive to politically sterilize evangelical students, ensuring they do not challenge the progressive monopoly on university discourse. The result, as Stock rightly points out, is predictable: "Christian leaders wonder why our culture and our country are the way they are." The answer is that the institutions that should be training the future guardians of Judeo-Christian civilization are instead disarming them intellectually and politically, handing the future of activism and leadership "into the hands of non-Christian students" steeped in cultural Marxism and moral relativism.

This episode is an urgent wake-up call for parents, donors, and congregations that support these universities. They must demand transparency and fidelity to the stated mission. A Christian university that censors students for organizing around conservative values has abdicated its reason for existence and become another appendage of the woke indoctrination system. It is imperative to support brave students like Sarah Stock, expose this hypocrisy, and donate only to institutions that fearlessly defend free speech and faith-based political engagement. The complicit silence of Christian universities is not neutrality; it is complicity with the agenda seeking to erase Christian values from public life.

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