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Everybody in. you could have an atheist as a member of the organization. we're talking about the leadership of that organization. and vanderbilt wants them to have to say that they would have someone who doesn't believe in their principles to be the leadership. what's really interesting, though, is they made an exception for sororities and fraternities but won't do that for religious organizations. the state of tennessee passed a bill that said if we're giving $24 million of taxpayer money to organizations, they shouldn't be able to discriminate against religious groups. we're waiting to see i...

The university said, take that out about jesus christ. and then you folks stepped into action. abby, what are your thoughts on this sunday morning, about this effort by vanderbilt? >> well, we just really want to convey that leadership does matter to maintain the integrity of our organization and that the inconsistency of the all comers policy and the not being applied across the board equally, and when they discriminate against new members by the nature of recruitment, whether their hair color, what they're wearing or activities they're involved in and the problem is that vanderbilt isn't con...

Comers policy. what does that mean? it means all groups including religious ones must be open to all students so even atheists like an atheist could run the christian organization on campus. a university spokesperson saying those student groups who choose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy do forfeit the privileges associated with registered student association status and that includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> all right. a government plan to help home owners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. a new report from the inspector general finds the treasury dep...

In the next few days at vanderbilt university. it's called the all comers policy. the school says this is a nondiscrimination policy that will allow any person of any faith or any belief or any organization to join other organizations. so, for example, we've had people on the show before who run christian organizations on campus and what this policy would mean is that an atheist could actually be the leader of that organization and under the school's new policy, they deem that to be fair. some people might deem that to be crazy because why would an atheist want to lead a christian organization...

Not allowed to vote on our leaders based on religious beliefs it doesn't make sense. >>clayton: they say the university does not seek to limit freedom to practice religious but we require all registered student organizations to observe our nondiscrimination policy. what do you say to that? >>guest: well, at the meeting they refer to it not as nondiscrimination but as all comers policy a new term to us, and they have not been very clear with the students about this policy, and, we are concerned that, for example, if a leader converts to a different religion over the semi, say a muslim is electe...