World's Largest Baptist University Drops 'Homosexual Acts' From Sexual Misconduct Code

Charisma News ^ | JON HERSKOVITZ

[Nucluside]

Right. It’s all about the federal cake.

[AppyPappy]

Probably the work of a lawyer rather than a theologian.

[Hugin]

Fornication? So gay sex is OK, but straight sex can get you kicked out?

[Mechanicos]

Jude 1:4 "For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord."

[NorthMountain]

From the article:

The new policy endorsed by the university's board in May states, "Baylor will be guided by the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God and that physical sexual intimacy is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity."

The university, which has about 14,000 undergraduates, did not say if it would allow married same-sex couples among its ranks after the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled that gay marriage is legal in all 50 states.

Their removal of buggery from the list of prohibited behaviors is disturbing. Will they argue that buggery within a sodomite union is not "fornication" and therefore permissible?

[US Navy Vet]

Yep, “Southern Baptists” have been pretty flakey for years. The ONLY thing that kept them from PURE Flakiness was Adrian Rogers, now that he is gone they are resuming the down hill slide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Rogers

[xzins]

Will they argue that buggery within a sodomite union is not "fornication" and therefore permissible?

I don't see any other rationale for this.

[GeronL]

ugh

[Bratch]

Follow the money.

Somebody somewhere threatened to withhold funds.

1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

[MNDude]

It’s incredible how absolutely destructive these 2% are and how many people wish to embrace them.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It’s a crazy world we live in. It sure sounds like now it’s ok to have homosexual sex, but not heterosexual sex.

[xzins]

Adrian Rogers had tremendous personal influence throughout the Baptist world, and even though Baylor isn’t specifically southern Baptist, I think he would have spoken his piece to them behind the scenes.

[MNDude]

“Will they argue that buggery within a sodomite union is not “fornication” and therefore permissible? “

Not just permissible, but then a GIFT FROM GOD.

[.45 Long Colt]

He was my pastor for many years and I am still friends with his family. I loved him, admired him, and learned so much from him. The last few years of his life, his preaching was the only thing keeping me a Southern Baptist. His successor was (is) a disaster in my book, so I moved my family away from my longtime church home after he died. We attend a small Reformed Baptist Church and it is wonderful.

[Gamecock]

Caring?

So you care enough, as a religious institution, to pave the way for people’s spiral into Hell?

[Alex Murphy]

Baylor, in the central Texas city of Waco, had been one of a handful of religious U.S. colleges and universities that allowed for the dismissal of students, and sometimes staff, for homosexuality. Baylor has removed "homosexual acts" as a punishable offense in its sexual misconduct policy, an official said on Tuesday. The policy also mandated disciplinary action for sexual assault, incest, adultery and fornication. "These changes were made because we didn't believe the language reflected the university's caring community," Baylor spokeswoman Lori Fogleman wrote in an email.

PFL

[US Navy Vet]

The Southern Baptists are so large that when they(S. Baptists) sneeze the Baptist “World” gets a cold.

[xzins]

“Caring” them all the way to hell, but first ‘caring’ them all the way to a disease-riddled body that races for an early grave.

[Red Badger]

...and ‘adultery’, where one guy is married to another guy and you have relations with one of them?..................

[Mr Rogers]

A shame to see, but I don’t think Baylor has been particularly Christian, let alone Baptist, for some time. Other than in name...