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

Charisma News ^ | JON HERSKOVITZ

[Tax-chick]

And it in no way forbids homosexual acts aside from intercourse.

In the strictest sense, no homosexual act is sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is the reproductive act of a mammalian species, not the whole array of other ways of achieving genital pleasure.

[xzins]

married sodomites having sex with each other would have held up in court

Sure, it would have, if it was an agreed upon principle to which students agree before enrolling as a condition of enrollment and continuation.

[TexasFreeper2009]

So by your reasoning Baylor could ban interracial couples legally ? Because I thin THIS supreme court would not agree.

[wagglebee]

There is no way a Baylor prohibition against married sodomites having sex with each other would have held up in court.

Who cares? Baylor is a PRIVATE Baptist university, they don't need to condone sodomy in any form.

Regardless of what any court says, Baylor CHOSE to violate Biblical mandates.

Not that I'm surprised, religious colleges in this country have a long history of embracing secularism: Harvard was founded by Puritans, nearly all of the other Ivy League schools were once religious, all of the large Catholic and Protestant colleges have abandoned the faith).

[wagglebee]

You are, of course, correct.

[xzins]

No, by my reasoning, sexual behavior is a legitimate and long known principle of the Christian faith. Therefore, asking someone to agree to that in a personally signed statement of principles would be entirely legitimate.

Is it a standard belief and practice of worldwide, historic Christianity to deny interracial marriage?

[wagglebee]

There are several Christian colleges that prohibit their students from consuming alcohol and many prohibit use of tobacco products. I don't see why prohibiting sodomy would be any different.

[xzins]

And I think they all agree to that coming in.

They can’t come in if they DON’T agree to that, but they do agree to that.

[wagglebee]

Exactly. The overwhelming majority (I would image well over 95%) of colleges have no issues with premarital sex or homosexuality at all, so it's not as if Baylor and other schools being prohibitive creates an undue burden.

[Secret Agent Man]

How about caring enough for people to tell them stuff they don’t like but need to hear?

[EternalVigilance]

There is no way a Baylor prohibition against married sodomites having sex with each other would have held up in court.

I don't know why. But for a moment let's say you're right. If so, it's time to tell the court to go to hell.

[XenaLee]

It sounds like it’s infecting all denominations.

Which is why I am, after all of these years (decades), glad that I have never been a fan of organized religion. Still a Christian, but not one that feels I have to belong to any church or denomination.

[XenaLee]

It sounds like it’s infecting all denominations.

Which is why I am, after all of these years (decades), glad that I have never been a fan of organized religion. Still a Christian, but not one that feels I have to belong to any church or denomination.

[xzins]

It’s affecting independents, too.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Actually up until the middle of the last century interracial marriage was preached against in most protestant churches.

[xzins]

Is it a standard belief and practice of worldwide, historic Christianity to deny interracial marriage?

Actually up until the middle of the last century interracial marriage was preached against in most protestant churches.

I agree that interracial marriage was not advocated in protestant churches up until about the last quarter of the 20th century. The mainline denominations appeared to verbalize acceptance of the concept, but in reality, there were very few interracial marriages even in those churches.

And while there is some evidence that the Roman Catholic church as not opposed to interracial marriage, the frequency of interracial marriage among Roman Catholic whites was quite rare.

I have less information about Christianity and interracial marriage in the remainder of the world, and it will be harder to come by because the definition of interracial marriage would be quite different in other parts of the world.

That said, the position of the majority of Christianity is either silence on the subject or an acceptance of it in official circles. My guess is that in most places it simply wasn't an issue primarily because there was no intermingling of races to the degree there was in North America.

So, to answer my own question: (1) there is no serious theology in Christian history that rejects interracial marriage. (2) There was a theology of same-race marriage in America. It was a formal theology in some churches, and it was an informal rejection of interracial marriage in most of the remainder.

[Maelstorm]

Just bend over.