Christian students at Exeter University are to consult legal experts following the decision by the Student Guild at Exeter University not to reinstate the Christian Union as a student union society with full rights and privileges.
On November 14, the ECU delivered a Letter before Action on the Registrar of the University, and on the Student Guild. In it, the students advised that unless the Exeter Evangelical Christian Union was fully re-instated as a student society by the Guild with full rights, and was allowed to call itself the Christian Union within 14 days of the letter, they would take further legal advice and legal action would follow under the Human Rights Act 1998, and the Education (No.2) Act 1986.
The saga started in May this year when one student felt the CU was too exclusive for him, ECU has told Christian Today. Student Guild officers allowed him to propose a name change to the 'Evangelical Christian Union' at an up-coming Extra-ordinary Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
We are deeply disappointed that the Guild has not seen that common sense should prevail in this case, and that the ECU is being discriminated against.
Ben Martin, Committee Member Exeter Christian Union
No official notice of the motion had been served on the CU, but his motion was passed by 54 to 50, explains the ECU. The Guild subsequently ratified the vote and forced the CU to call themselves the 'Evangelical Christian Union' from that moment on. The CU believes that whilst the word 'evangelical' has a clear historic meaning, its contemporary usage is ill-defined and can be very misleading.
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