I bet Bernie will be treated more respectfully at Liberty than a conservative would be treated almost anywhere else.

John Wagner of the Washington Post reported.

Here’s why Bernie Sanders plans to speak at Liberty University next month

Liberty University, the conservative Christian school in Lynchburg, Va., where Ted Cruz kicked off his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, is not such an obvious stop on the campaign trail for Bernie Sanders.

But the independent senator from Vermont , who is vying to be the Democratic party’s 2016 presidential nominee, has been booked to speak there next month at a university convocation.

“It goes without saying that my views on many issues — women’s rights, gay rights, education and many other issues — are very different from the opinions of some in the Liberty University community,” Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who is Jewish, said Wednesday night, in comments relayed by a spokesman.

But Sanders said he would like to see if “we can reach consensus regarding the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in our country, about the collapse of the middle class, about the high level of childhood poverty, about climate change and other issues.”