https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/religious_intolerance_and_covid_vax_mandates.html
In our current age of woke domination and historical ignorance, the words of Joseph Noyes speak to us through the centuries.
By the “middle of the 18th century, Yale College was beginning to show the effects of the religious toleration that was gaining ground everywhere in the colonies. When President Thomas Clap, in an effort to create a sectarian institution, tried to expel the Reverend Joseph Noyes from the Yale corporation, he was met by opposition both from Noyes himself and from another spokesman of an opposing Congregationalist faction. Noyes, whom Clap suspected of having fallen from the faith, was asked to submit to an examination by other members of the corporation.” Noyes absolutely refused this request.[1]
On September 14, 1757, Noyes asserted that
[t]he law or resolve upon which my examination is founded is arbitrary; for a man to be subjected to an examination, on suspicion only, is contrary to all reason.
Said law or resolve is manifestly unjust, as it subjects a man, though innocent, to suffer in his character and influence, and leaves him without remedy.
Said law or resolve is singular and unprecedented, there having never been hereto any law or rule of the like nature in this Corporation, or any other Christian community, except the Courts of Inquisition and Star Chamber [emphasis mine].
Said law or resolve is inconsistent with the ecclesiastical constitution of this colony. I am accountable to the consociation to which I belong, touching my principles, and not to this board.