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50+ Professors & Staff Resign From Christian University After Refusing to Sign Homosexuality Pledge
The Blaze ^ | May 16, 2012 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 05/17/2012 12:32:51 PM PDT by 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

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
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To: Hot Tabasco

Read the rest of my post. I clearly mention dinner at home, not out in public. If it is a problem for you. Then don’t apply to work there.

It mentions that they take no public money and they are a religious organization. As a private organization they can decide to do that. I don’t see why people have gotten their knickers in such a twist over this.


141 posted on 05/17/2012 7:20:28 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: dmz
"You can drink your beer at home all you want."

-From my original post.

142 posted on 05/17/2012 7:24:53 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: Notary Sojac

Yes.


143 posted on 05/17/2012 7:35:34 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: lurk
Good and bad. They’re identifying one particular sin group. But then, what about gossips, liars, thieves, people with critical attitudes? Those are sins too, and just as damaging.

Go away...

144 posted on 05/17/2012 7:45:22 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: QT3.14

Excellent to see a Bible college promoting Biblical standards.

By the way, I think the most relevant scripture in understanding the alcohol provisions is this one:

“It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.” Romans 14:21, King James 2000 Bible

The college isn’t stating that staff can’t drink alcohol, just not in public or for 6 hours prior to college events. It appears they are trying to prevent students from seeing staff and faculty indulging or under the influence of alcohol. College students are famous for being “weak” when it comes to alcohol use.


145 posted on 05/17/2012 7:59:33 PM PDT by Tamzee (Thomas Jefferson - "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.")
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To: US Navy Vet

Intercultural Studies at a Christian University is equivalent to Missions.


146 posted on 05/17/2012 8:11:40 PM PDT by Acento Importante
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To: QT3.14

If they are going to go after sinners, I would prefer that they start with the envious and covetous.


147 posted on 05/17/2012 8:15:03 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: kearnyirish2

When did God level their cities?

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Well there is that whole Great Flood thing.


148 posted on 05/17/2012 8:18:05 PM PDT by dmz
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To: ScreamingFist
4. I will not use alcoholic beverages in the presence of FReepers, and I will abstain from serving, from using, and from advocating the use of alcoholic beverages on FreeRepublic.

I once posted a New Years thread on the importance of tradition, and I was so blasted that I passed out on the keyboard.

Fortunately, since that time I have stopped drinking completely.

Yea, that's the ticket.

149 posted on 05/17/2012 8:25:41 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: QT3.14

Good! There are lots of young PhDs who are looking for work.


150 posted on 05/17/2012 8:40:53 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: alancarp

It’s the Baptist culture in the United States. I spent many years in Europe, and the Baptists there drank like, well, Europeans.


151 posted on 05/17/2012 8:48:04 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: dmz
I will not attend any University sponsored event in which if I have consumed alcohol within the last six hours.

That sentence awakens my inner grammar Nazi. Doesn't anyone proofread any more?

152 posted on 05/17/2012 8:57:59 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: married21

Wasn’t wine served at The Last Supper?


153 posted on 05/17/2012 9:03:26 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: QT3.14
Number 4 leaves me out. No beer or glass of whiskey at a restaurant?

However, I'm not Baptist either.

154 posted on 05/17/2012 9:15:05 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (The Republican Party is bigger than the presidency.)
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To: lightman

One back story that is being neglected is that the Southern Baptist Convention recently added alcohol use to their list of things prohibited for clergy, teachers and employees. I suspect most of these people quitting the college like an occasional beer or glass of wine and it is not a mass exodus of people out of the closet. One of the problems with legalism is that it adds to God’s laws in an attempt to make one holy. So if God’s law prohibits drunkeness, then you can go one step further and prohibit all alcohol enjoyment and observing that might make you more “saved.” I have often wondered that if you are good at avoiding man-made “sins” then do people see it as a cover for when they commit actual sins? Such as, I might steal but at least I don’t dance or have long hair or whatever.

This sort of legalism creates unnecessary burdens while it actually makes sin less serious. If sin is just a checklist of things to avoid, rather than a part of our fallen nature, then maybe there is a lot we can do for ourselves without Christ. One could get a false sense of security, waving a very selective list of sins (like sinful sexual practices) plus social taboos about drinking, and thinking, like the rich young ruler, “I am doing pretty good according to my list, so what do I need this Jesus for.” I support the right of a religious institution to insist on its people following the doctrines of the organization and for the people to be good examples and not to engage in open, blatant sin. But mixing actual sins with social customs or taboos is one problem. Reducing the problem of sin to a checklist is an additional problem, as if the point of Christianity is to make one a better practitioner of the Law (with a little help from God, perhaps).


155 posted on 05/18/2012 1:02:35 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: lurk
At the link:

Aside from forbidding an active role in a gay relationship, the lifestyle pledge also bans pre-marital sex, adultery and drug use and abuse. Additionally, employees are asked to be active members of a church and to live their lives as committed, Bible-believing followers of Jesus Christ.

A private employer who might suffer considerable damage from scandals involving these behaviours has the right to have employees who will reflect their standards of behaviour to avoid damage to their reputation.

156 posted on 05/18/2012 3:21:37 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: dmz

God has nothing to do with denominations. It’s all about a relationship with HIM not about a ‘religion’. One serves HIM because they want to (their heart), not because of rule #1 or #50.


157 posted on 05/18/2012 3:44:09 AM PDT by presently no screen name (God First!! VAB: Voting Against Both---> Romney and Obama.)
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To: QT3.14
They should have written "reject as unacceptable." Also, "reject" is rather theoretical next to the behavioral demand in the next item (refraining from alcohol use in public).
158 posted on 05/18/2012 4:06:18 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
They also had to pledge no premarital sex, no adultery

All I see is they are asked to affirm "I reject as acceptable" [sic] those practices. Rejecting them as unacceptable doesn't mean pledging not to practice.

159 posted on 05/18/2012 4:10:37 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: QT3.14

People just don’t want to pay public welfare benefits for two lunatics sodding off all day.

Muslims would just kill homosexuals.

Taking into consideration broken clocks tell the correct time twice each day, maybe “spread the other cheek” is not a good public policy.

In your unabridged Oxford Dictionaries, the word “faggotry” denotes the bundling of steel to be hammered or rolled together.

Mammalian evolution is entirely heterosexual.

 Monogamy is not required for evolution, monogamy is a tenet of religion.

To prohibit polyandry and polygyny is an ecclesiastic rule of law.

To establish an ecclesiastic standard of monogamy for homosexuals is nothing but RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY.

Democrats live in a fantasy world where fairies wave magic wands over their anus and babies materialize out of thin air.

All men are born of a woman.

If you have to tell grown men that babies will not come out of their rectums, there is no hope for any rational discourse...


160 posted on 05/18/2012 4:40:05 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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