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To: QT3.14
...among other forbidden activities.

From http://www.shorter.edu/about/personal_lifestyle_statement.pdf

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.


14 posted on 05/17/2012 12:46:01 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: KarlInOhio

Looks like tha bar is set pretty LOW!


28 posted on 05/17/2012 1:00:02 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: KarlInOhio
I will not attend any University sponsored event in which I have consumed alcohol within the last six hours.

Looks like the lecturer in Grammar was the first to go.

43 posted on 05/17/2012 1:18:03 PM PDT by Vide
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To: KarlInOhio
I think the story is a bit deceiving. I bet the people who didn't sign were less worried about homosexuality and more worried about things like “no premarital sex” and “no alcohol in public” stuff. This is perfectly within their right to do it. If people want to drink, drug and engage in libertine sex, then don't work there.
75 posted on 05/17/2012 1:43:55 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: KarlInOhio

Guarantee that many Freepers would have problems with this pledge.

1. I will be loyal to the mission of Shorter University as a Christ-centered institution affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention. - I have no idea what that means. However, it could include not dancing on Sunday, among other things.

2. I will not engage in the use, sale, possession, or production of illegal drugs. - I would have no problems with that, but I would expect that some Freepers might.

3. I reject as acceptable all sexual activity not in agreement with the Bible, including, but not limited to, premarital sex, adultery, and homosexuality - Again I would have no problems. However what it means is that the only sexual activity is sex with your wife in the missionary position without protection. (or any other birth control)

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. - I don’t drink so it would be no problem, but a lot of Freepers are hard drinking types.


82 posted on 05/17/2012 2:06:12 PM PDT by NathanR
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To: KarlInOhio
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.....

102 posted on 05/17/2012 2:49:28 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: KarlInOhio

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.


109 posted on 05/17/2012 3:19:48 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: KarlInOhio

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?


114 posted on 05/17/2012 4:24:41 PM PDT by glorgau
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