Thu Apr 27, 2023 – 5:30 pm EDT
BISMARCK, North Dakota (LifeSiteNews) – North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law Monday a measure forbidding state colleges and universities from requiring students, employees, applicants, and potential hires from being forced to conform to left-wing ideology.
SB 2247 prohibits students or employees of public higher-ed institutions from being “[p]enalized, discriminated against,” or otherwise mistreated for refusing to “support, believe, endorse, embrace, confess, act upon, or otherwise assent to or oppose a specified concept”; “[r]equired to endorse or oppose a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, tenure, promotion, or graduation”; or asked for their “ideological or political viewpoint” as a condition of hiring or admission.
It also forbids mandating or financially incentivizing training in the “specified concepts,” and requires any existing diversity officers to incorporate into their work “efforts to strengthen and increase intellectual diversity among students and faculty.”
The “specified concepts” at issue include the beliefs that certain races or sexes are “inherently superior or inferior” and/or “inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously”; that an individual’s race or sex warrants “adverse treatment,” determines their “moral character,” or carries
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