Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is pushing back on Stanford University, claiming that it has punished students who don't conform to the institution's ideology.
In a letter obtained by Blaze News, Cassidy called out Stanford for allegedly threatening to fire a graduate student who refused to pay dues to a union that advocates values contrary to his own.
'Student workers should not be compelled.'
The union, known as the Stanford Graduate Workers Union, sends two-thirds of its dues to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, which supports abortion and taxpayer-funded gender-transition procedures. The student refused to pay the dues, citing his conflicting religious beliefs, which allegedly resulted in the threat to fire the student.
"This firing would ba