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Title: Baylor drops ban on 'homosexual acts'
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Houston Chronicle
URL Source: http://www.chron.com/local/educatio ... 0583.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop
Published: Jul 7, 2015
Author: Benjamin Wermund
Post Date: 2015-07-07 18:22:06 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 1064
Comments: 6
The world's largest Baptist university has dropped a ban on "homosexual acts" in its sexual conduct policy.
After years of appeals from students, alumni and others, Baylor University revised its sexual conduct policy, dropping the ban on gay sex to "state more plainly the expectations of the university," a Baylor spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"These changes were made because we didn't believe the language reflected Baylor's caring community," spokeswoman Lori Fogleman said in an email.
Baylor's old policy called "homosexual acts" a misuse of "God's gift," along with sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest and adultery.
Baylor, a private school that is the oldest university in Texas, has at times been slow to change with the world around it, fearing the wrath of fundamentalists. The school didn't lift a ban on dancing until the mid-1990s -- a decision that came six years after students called on Baylor leaders to change the rule so they didn't have to party at off-campus bars. The school continues to ban alcohol on campus or at university-related events.
Students have called on administrators to update the sexual conduct policy for years. In 2013, the student government passed a vote to change the policy, but then-student body President Wesley Hodges vetoed the motion. Hodges did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
The school's updated policy, approved by Baylor's board in May, is far more vague than its last one. It says the university will be guided by "the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God." Sex, the policy says, "is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity."
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Willie you have read what you posted, I assume.
Here is what the Bible says. Who do you agree with?
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
"is to be expressed in the context of [gay] marital fidelity."spokeswoman Lori Fogleman said
Fixed it for ya ^^^
She seems like the Baptist equivalent of the Pope.
#3. To: Willie Green (#0)
The school's updated policy, approved by Baylor's board in May, is far more vague than its last one. It says the university will be guided by "the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God." Sex, the policy says, "is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity."
I think im confused!
So you can be openly gay, live in sin but still work for Baylor?
#4. To: Willie Green (#0) (Edited)
Baylor drops ban on 'homosexual acts'
In twenty years we won't have barely 10 percent of the population in this country who isn't homosexual as a consequence of the inherent failure in attempts to form heterosexual relationships within the destructive pool of valueless infantile runamok social prevalence combined with the success of non stop pro-homosexual propaganda.
#5. To: Justified (#3)
I think im confused!So you can be openly gay, live in sin but still work for Baylor?
You're not confused. Baylor is confused.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#1)
I think this is the same "Christian" University that supports evolution.
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