Yesterday I wrote about how religious freedom is under attack in countless ways in this country. Another recent story illustrates my point in the context of higher education.

Several days ago when the news broke that a student group plans to conduct a “Black Mass” on the campus of Harvard University tonight (Monday, May 12), with the blessing (so to speak) of the University administration, the public outcry was loud, of mixed origin, and effective. Various representatives from religious groups–such as the Archdiocese of Boston and the Harvard Chaplains’ organization–and individuals–both current students and alumni–stated their objections in very coherent and blunt terms.

Still, this morning, Harvard’s President reiterated her support of the group’s plans and stated that the University would not stand in the way of the controversial activity. Minutes ago, however, within the 5:00 hour Eastern time, the Black Mass proponents announced that, because they do not want to harm the great university (translation– we are losing benefactor support), they have decided to move the event off campus. They made it clear that the university did not ask them to change the location and that they were appalled at the opposition to their little learning experience.

So, the ticking time bomb at Harvard has been defused for now, in something of a compromise (one of the points of my blog post yesterday). But before we brush this off and send away gawkers with the proverbial law enforcement admonition of “Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here,” I want to pose a few questions to the good folks at Harvard, particularly President Drew Faust, and ask her to respond. In light of her openness to the religiously objectionable Black Mass and the learning experience that she wants for the students at Harvard, Professor Faust should be able to answer an unequivocal “Yes” to all of these questions.

(1) Will you allow a film to be shown on Harvard’s illustrious campus, which film depicts “a deranged, womanizing Prophet Muhammad facing a hypothetical trial“? You know, like the one that caused the riot in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 , that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other patriotic Americans. Wait, except the film didn’t do all that, even though the film-maker was still in prison a year ago in the aftermath of the false allegations made by our own government. Professor Faust, showing this film would serve as a lesson to illustrate how lies perpetuated by the federal Administration can kill innocent people. So what say you?

(2) Will you allow history students who are studying the Civil War bring onto your illustrious campus or wear on their persons a Confederate flag, the presence of which flag will serve to demonstrate that the Civil War was about the primacy of states’ rights over the federal government’s encroachment into areas unauthorized by the U.S. Constitution? Or will you instead ban them from bring such flags to your sacred public place? And would you support the banning of all sales of such flags in any configuration throughout the state? Although not a religious rights issue, this is a closely related and equally trampled First Amendment issue.

(3) Will you permit pictures depicting aborted fetuses to be brought onto Harvard’s illustrious campus for a women’s studies lesson? And if so, would you punish a Harvard professor if she absconded in the night with one or more of the posters under the excuse that she determined that they were not appropriate, thus making herself the guardian of all things good and evil?

I can come up with other questions, Professor Faust, but something tells me that you will not do us the courtesy of responding to the ones posed herein. And that, in this great country, is your sacred First Amendment and you Fifth Amendment prerogative.