Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is accusing Stanford University of punishing a grad student who refused to pay dues to a union that supported abortion rights and gender transitioning procedures, Blaze News reported Thursday.
In a letter dated Thursday, Cassidy wrote that he was “seriously concerned” over the plight of a graduate student who was threatened with termination as a teaching assistant if he did not pay dues to the Stanford Graduate Workers Union, which sends two-thirds of its dues to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
At issue is that UE “supports abortion and taxpayer-funded gender transition procedures, positions that run contrary to the religious beliefs” of the affected student, Cassidy wrote.
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