The founder of Harvard was a Christian minister. What would he say about this?

The College Fix reports.

Harvard employee rebukes student for discussing Bible verse on campus

Writing in the Harvard Crimson campus newspaper, student Rachel Huebner examines the rise of campus “safe spaces” and the problems they pose to academic freedom, free speech and open discourse.

In an eye-opening passage of her column, she gives a recent example she personally experienced at her Ivy League university in which she was rebuked for citing a Bible verse on campus:

In a recent conversation with peers, I posed a question about a verse from the Bible. A Harvard employee in the room immediately interjected, informing me that we were in a safe space and I was thus not permitted to discuss the controversial biblical passage.

Asked by The College Fix for more details on the experience, Huebner said via email on Thursday that “a few months ago, I was having a private conversation with friends. When I posed a question about a Biblical verse on warfare, a Harvard employee interjected, notifying me that we were in a ‘safe space’ and we could not discuss the passage.”

“I was surprised and upset by the interjection because my friends and I were not permitted to have a conversation that we wanted to have amongst ourselves. Furthermore, the notion that we could not invoke Biblical passages because of their controversy was alarming,” Huebner said in her email. “The text of the Bible includes many verses that the modern mind cannot easily understand, but this is not a reason to silence discussion.”

The ultimate irony? Harvard was founded by a minister.

Huebner declined to elaborate further, including to say where the incident occurred on campus and how she and her peers responded to the employee.