Defaming The First Amendment: University Calls Religious Liberty A ‘License To Discriminate’

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Sarah Holliday

Does religious freedom really just give license to discriminate? A University of Georgia (UGA) training program claims it does.

The College Fix obtained the UGA Pride Center “Dawg Ally” training, which instructs that “religious exemption laws” are a “license to discriminate” against “LGBTQ people.” Some questions arose: Which religious liberty laws are in question? Are “Dawg Ally” participants allowed to disagree with this premise?

When the outlet tried to dig deeper, UGA spokesman James Hataway stated only that the university “offers a variety of voluntary and optional resources, including this program last offered in Fall 2025 through the Division of Student Affairs, designed to promote respectful engagement across our campus community.”

While it’s true the last known training took place in October 2025, the center continues to advertise it as a “three-hour training for all faculty, staff, and students who are interested in learning about gender and sexual identity, homophobia, [and] heterosexism,” according to The Fix.

The state’s flagship university relies on taxpayer dollars, which in turn at least partly support such trainings. 

Arielle Del Turco, director of Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, noted the irony of taxpayer-funded institutions taking aim at the Constitution.

Del Turco told Decision: “It’s sad that the University of Georgia is effectively defaming the First Amendment. Religious liberty is not a license to discriminate against anyone. Rather, it protects everyone’s fundamental right to live according to their own deeply held beliefs.”

Beyond the religious liberty issues, the training also pushes several ideological ideas. It teaches and urges participants to:

  • Stay open to polyamory and use new language so people in polygamous relationships are treated as LGBT allies.
  • Join a “Coming Out Activity”: write names of loved ones, roles, and favorite activities on separate slips of paper. In the training, a facilitator then randomly takes some or all of the paper slips away to show how “homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic” attitudes supposedly devastate people who come out.
  • Accept a gender-pronoun chart that includes “ze / zir / zirself,” “per / per / perself,” and “hu / hum / humself.”
  • Replace everyday language like “Ladies and Gentlemen” with “Distinguished Guest[s]” and “Dear Sir / Madam” with “To whom it may concern.”

Notably, the training heavily relies on resources from the Trevor Project—a far-left activist organization dedicated to promoting LGBT-related ideology. Nathanael Blake, a fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, warned, “The Trevor Project is an activist organization whose surveys are so badly conducted that they don’t even rise to the level of junk science—they’re just junk. No one should rely on them for accurate data.”

Blake also noted how he “thought we were past pushing bizarre new pronouns on people, but I guess the University of Georgia didn’t get the memo that Woke … was crazy.”

Echoing this, Blake noted that no government or academic entity should “be demonizing religious liberty,” adding that “it is grotesque that the University of Georgia is abusing the language of civil rights in its attack on the fundamental right of religious freedom.”

Education is designed to “serve the public and promote the common good,” Blake emphasized. “Radical trainings in queer theory and activism do the opposite.” 

Del Turco agreed, concluding that “public universities should be revering, not undermining, our freedoms.”

Relevant Bible passages to ponder: Isaiah 5:20, 2 Timothy 4:3

Sarah Holliday is an Assistant Editor for (Harbinger’s Daily Contributing Publisher) Decision Magazine. She is also a Family Research Council (FRC) contributor.
Sacred Scripture

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

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