On July 9, 2025, Baylor University announced that it would return a grant that would have been used to promote LGBT activism in the church. This decision from Baylor was a win for common sense and orthodox Christians in a time when the radical Left is continually trying to omit and replace biblical truth with falsehood. While the school backed away from this controversial project, the fact that Baylor, the third-largest Christian-centered higher education institution in the U.S., ever accepted such a grant in the first place is troubling, but it’s not surprising.

Schools in the U.S. have long been struggling to maintain and nurture their Chrisitan roots amid the blazing fire of our shifting and moving culture, and many have even forgotten their school’s biblical principles as time has moved on.

America’s top schools, the Ivy League, were founded by Christian pastors and religious members. Harvard University, which is now suing the Trump administration over cuts in federal funding following the school’s blatant anti-Semitism, was, believe it or not, founded to “educate clergy for service in the new, English-speaking world” in 1636. From starting as a school where faculty “gave sermons to their students,” today Harvard is no longer predominantly identified with Christianity, or religion in general.

Over the years, as Harvard began to make a name for itself, the school became synonymous with prestige, and its campus became a melting pot for secularism and atheistic fever. By following the culture that surrounded it, Harvard is now almost entirely unrecognizable from what its founders envisioned as an institution and, as a result, its mission has shifted to celebrate man’s glory and his achievements over that of God’s.

Other prestigious schools like Georgetown University, which was founded in 1789 as a Catholic and Jesuit school and is currently the largest college in our nation’s capital, are not too different from Harvard when it comes to their balance between their traditional roots and appeasing modern culture. In fact, you could say the school fully gave into postmodernism in 2008 when it established a LGBTQ Resource Center, which the school still funds to this day. Although the Bible is clear that there are only two sexes and that marriage is solely between a man and a woman in Genesis 1-2, Georgetown’s faculty folded and instead took up hypocrisy as their god to appease leftists and postmodern culture. Even years later, Georgetown University still proudly proclaims its Catholic and Jesuit heritage.

Even when Christian-centered schools become less orthodox in the teachings of the Bible and Jesus to avoid backlash from liberal characters, they are not always let off the hook from those who actively work to undermine the biblical values for which they were founded upon.

Take 2022, when members of the board of trustees of Seattle Pacific University, a private Free Methodist institution founded in 1891, were sued by liberal students and faculty at SPU over the board’s decision to keep the university’s moral lifestyle policies. These liberal students and faculty filed a lawsuit because they were convinced that the school’s belief in a biblical view of marriage and the idea of two sexes damaged and hurt the community. This resulting calamity between the institution of SPU and its unorthodox, liberal faculty and students who disregard what the Bible and Jesus have to say was inevitable so long as the university upheld its beliefs, which by God it did.

Several factors have contributed to the deterioration of Christianity on campuses across the U.S., but it has primarily been the decline of biblical standards as more of the Left’s delusional ideas infiltrate American campuses. The redefining of natural marriage to include same-sex marriage and the idea that gender transition surgery can change a person’s biological sex challenge the Bible’s thoughts on these issues — and, therefore, its authority over our lives.

The recent events at Baylor University regarding their LGBT church inclusion grant should serve as a stark warning and a reminder for all Christian schools. Believers cannot have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom. If men and women of faith allow themselves to compromise, what good is their belief? Those who claim to be Christians cannot be lukewarm about Jesus. Christian schools need to stand up and not sacrifice the values for which they were formed, because when we do sacrifice our values, we lose sight of God.

Cameron Saunders serves as an intern at Family Research Council.