... talking about it and trying to make progress, but I feel like we're operating under a different set of rules.

This Catholic professor's experience at a Catholic school shows us how little room the leftist academic mentality has for tolerance of anyone they view as intolerant to their way of life (and these are practicing Catholic students who led the charge, egged on by some of the secular professors.)

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/anthony-esolen-contra-mundum-catholic/  

An instructive quote from that article:

The faculty have circulated a “petition,” or a resolution, or something neither flesh nor fowl, to the effect that though we all have academic freedom, it has to be exercised responsibly, and reviling “some part of the PC faculty” that is “unabashed” in publishing articles that are racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, and religiously chauvinistic. The petition has been signed by various faculty members and students. And STILL I hear that they are not satisfied, but are trying to figure out if they can use my articles to nail me for “bias” and hate, basically asserting that I am not capable of teaching certain categories of students — gay, female, and so forth.

And here's the well-reasoned, though somewhat provacative article that started the furor:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/college-succumbed-totalitarian-diversity-cult

It's an EXCELLENT read, and here are some of it's more biting arguments:

I notice also, on that same Diversity page, that we are supposed to commit ourselves to welcoming the alphabet soup of cheered-on sexual proclivities. For some reason that does not include F, for Fornicators, or S, for swingers, or P, for pornographers, or W, for sex-workers, formerly called harlots, or A, for adulterers. No political lobby for those? Now, we either affirm, as an institution, that the Church has a real and powerful and urgent message she must bring to the world, a message of harsh truth and genuine healing, or we do not. If we do believe it, then we cannot believe that a disordered inclination towards any sin, sexual or otherwise, can be constitutive of any human being.

And...

But there is no evidence on our Diversity page that we wish to be what God has called us to be, a committedly and forthrightly Catholic school with life-changing truths to bring to the world. It is as if, deep down, we did not really believe it. So let us suppose that a professor should affirm some aspect of the Church’s teaching as regards the neuralgia of our time, sex. Will his right to do so be confirmed by those who say they are committed to diversity? Put it this way. Suppose someone were to ask, “Is it permitted for a secular liberal, at a secular and liberal college, to affirm in the classroom a secular view of sex and the family?” The question would strike everyone as absurd. It would be like asking whether we were permitted to walk on two feet or to look up at the sky. Then why should it not also be absurd to ask, “Is it permitted for a Catholic, at a college that advertises itself as Catholic, to affirm a Catholic view of sex and the family?” And I am not talking merely about professors whose specific job it is to teach moral philosophy or moral theology. I am talking about all professors.

I want to stay optimistic on these issues, but what did the Common Ground I meetings in 2014 get us?  Things seem worse now than then.  These forums are likely just a convention where the LGBTQ community instructs religious universities on what is/isn't acceptable to them ... not truly an open forum of mutual tolerance and respect.