50+ Professors & Staff Resign From Christian University After Refusing to Sign Homosexuality Pledge

The Blaze ^ | May 16, 2012 | Billy Hallowell

[QT3.14]

Last October, news broke that Shorter University, a Christian college in Rome, Georgia, had decided to ask its employees to sign a controversial pledge that affirms that they are not engaging in homosexuality, among other forbidden activities. Now, after scores of employees refused to sign the document, the college, which is affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention, has reportedly received a massive number of resignations

[alancarp]

Technically, the alcohol provision would ban their employees from accepting communion at a church that (Biblically correctly) uses wine for that sacrament... since it's a public place. Ditto (as dmz rightly pointed out) for having a glass of wine at a restaurant.

[Notary Sojac]

As I read this, bringing a six-pack to a family picnic at a public park, or having sex with your wife of 20 years in a position that's not missionary, is morally as despicable as diddling your male students.

That's certainly interesting.....

[fwdude]

EXCELLENT.

And I’m sure their quality of instruction will soon be much more so soon. Nothing is as intellectually bereft as Leftism.

[Chode]

let FDRQ be gone...

[Tau Food]

That “Personal Lifestyle Statement” is actually pretty permissive. It deals with sexual behaviors proscribed by the Bible, it deals with illegal drugs, and it permits the use of alcohol. It omits any pledge to abstain from marital birth control and thus allows marital couples to attempt to remove God from the procreation equation.

[presently no screen name]

I agree but this is a lifestyle.

[upchuck]

Welcome to FRee Republic.

Your response at number 52 is self-contradictory.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Looks like it worked.

[freedomfiter2]

I agree to adhere to and support the following principles (on or off the campus):
1. I will be loyal to the mission of Shorter University as a Christ-centered institution affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention.

2. I will not engage in the use, sale, possession, or production of illegal drugs.

3. I reject as acceptable all sexual activity not in agreement with the Bible, including, but not limited to, premarital sex, adultery, and homosexuality.

4. I will not use alcoholic beverages in the presence of students, and I will abstain from serving, from using, and from advocating the use of alcoholic beverages in public (e.g. in locations that are open to use by the general public, including as some examples restaurants, concert venues, stadiums, and sports facilities) and in settings in which students are present or are likely to be present. I will not attend any University sponsored event in which I have consumed alcohol within the last six hours. Neither will I promote or encourage the use of alcohol.

If they couldn’t commit to this, they weren’t fit to be at a Christian college.

[freedomfiter2]

or having sex with your wife of 20 years in a position that’s not missionary

where do you get that?

[presently no screen name]

Why not? Do you have Scriptural reference where he drank at the wedding.

[Notary Sojac]

“Sodomy”, which is clearly condemned in the Bible, has often been defined in law to include oral or anal sex between man and woman.

[dmz]

Why not? Do you have Scriptural reference where he drank at the wedding.

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Don’t need a scriptural reference that he drank at the wedding in order to know that Jesus could not sign the agreement.

Read the last sentence of rule #4, quoted here for ease: “Neither will I promote or encourage the use of alcohol.”

John 2 makes it pretty clear that Jesus intended the wine to be consumed, seeing as He instructed the servant to take it to the ruler of the feast.

Please don’t get me wrong, if school A or denomination B wants to establish rules of behavior, fine. One can make an informed choice to work/worship there or not.

[glorgau]

Well, I wouldn’t sign that pledge, but a religious college has every right to ask their employees to sign it. Otherwise, how could they live with themselves?

[RaceBannon]

Good for that College!

[democratsaremyenemy]

Have you read any of the responses paudio?

[married21]

What a crock that they believe that having a glass of wine at a restaurant is on the same level as adultery. Jesus drank wine in public with his disciples, while he was teaching them, in fact.

They have now made themselves into a “Christian” college that would not employ Jesus on their faculty.

[Shelayne]

However what it means is that the only sexual activity is sex with your wife in the missionary position

What?? Where is this in the Bible?

[NathanR]

I was oversimplifying. If sex is only for reproduction, that leaves out a lot of positions.

[Skulllspitter]

Welcome to FRee Republic.

Thank you!

Your response at number 52 is self-contradictory.

It is perfectly consistent.

A. Christians are called to believe and profess correct moral behavior
B. Christians are sinners who regularly fail to meet those standards, but admit their failings, repent, and try to sin no more. And then fail and try again.

It's a very different thing to ask people to profess their belief that extramarital sex is wrong - which pretty much every Christian believes - versus guaranteeing that they will never ever sin in that way, which is a worthy goal but one many fail to meet.