Baylor paper backs gay unions - student paper's editor said editorial was stance on legal issue

The Dallas Morning News ^ | February 28, 2004 | The Dallas Morning News Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Baylor paper backs gay unions

Student publication's editor said editorial was stance on legal issue

12:02 AM CST on Saturday, February 28, 2004

From Staff Reports

The Baylor Lariat, the student newspaper at the world's largest Baptist university, where dancing was banned on campus until 1996, supported legal marriage for gay couples in an editorial Friday.

"Taking into account legal protection under the law, gay couples should be granted the same equal rights to legal marriage as heterosexual couples," the editorial said.

The Baylor Lariat

Editorial: San Francisco should pursue gay marriage suit

The Baylor Lariat

Official site: Baylor University

Lariat editor Lacy Elwood said the editorial, which the student editorial board supported by a 5-2 vote, was "no big deal."

"We took a stance on a legal issue," she said. "We never took any kind of religious or moral stance – simply a legal stance."

Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley said editorials in the student-run newspaper do not necessarily reflect the views of President Robert Sloan, a Baptist minister, or the university.

The administration "has absolutely no control over the editorial content of the Lariat," he said. "That's evidenced by the fact that this same paper last September ran an editorial calling for the resignation of the president."

Mr. Brumley, who attended a board of regents meeting Friday, said he heard no reaction to the editorial from students, faculty or trustees.

Homosexual activity is prohibited at Baylor, as is any sexual activity outside marriage. A seminary student at Baylor recently lost his scholarship after saying he was gay. The editorial board objected to that decision in an article Feb. 10.

Mr. Brumley said he did not expect students to be disciplined for their stance on same-sex marriage.

"Retaliation is not a method of operation here," he said.

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[MeekOneGOP]

Hmm ? I think a good cartoonist could have fun with this one.

A Baptist University that had prohibited dancing until 1996 now takes a 'legal stance' for gay marriage ?

Lariat editor Lacy Elwood said the editorial, which the student editorial board supported by a 5-2 vote, was "no big deal."

"We took a stance on a legal issue," she said. "We never took any kind of religious or moral stance – simply a legal stance."

[jocon307]

ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

If I knew how to post pictures I'd post one of "The Scream".

[The South Texan]

As a Southern Baptist, I can tell you that most Baptist I know hardly consider Baylor a Baptist university anymore. In fact, most I would not send my kids there if you paid the tuition.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

...where dancing was banned on campus until 1996

This is the guy who turned it around:

[AlbertWang]

A Baptist University that had prohibited dancing until 1996 now takes a 'legal stance' for gay marriage ?

As long as the gays don't dance at the wedding its OK.

[Tacis]

I think that an issue almost as important is to get the MA judges to rule that pigs can fly. That way, we'll save a lot on transportation costs and, if birds can fly, it just isn't fair that pigs, up to now, haven't been able to.

[AnAmericanMother]

O.K., I can't help myself . . .

Q. . . Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?

A. . . It looks too much like dancing.

. . . sorry, I just lost it there for a minute. . . .

[chachacha]

The Parents must be real proud of these fine, loving, future leaders of America.

What a waste of money.

[PaxMacian]

"We never took any kind of religious or moral stance – simply a legal stance."

To defend attacks upon a holy sacrament based on its prior secularization is a far more political and moral stance than it is a legal stance. There is nothing legal about usurping the constitution by seeking powers to bestow a holy sacrament upon two people for there professed acts of abomination and there oath to maintain these acts for the rest of their life. What ever happened to separation of church and state? How, in fact, can any state perpetuate such an outright fraud upon any two such citizens seeking such a union as to allow them to believe that they are in any way blessed?

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

The Parents must be real proud of these fine, loving, future leaders of America

As long as the alumni keep the money flowing, who cares about the parents?

I wonder if the alumni will.

[Dog Gone]

Unbelievable. This would be like A&M's campus paper denouncing the military in an editorial.

[MeekOneGOP]

I hear ya.

Next up ??

-- Why can't I have three wives/husbands ??

-- I want to marry my pet crocodile. We're in love !

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[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! ;^)

[AnAmericanMother]

In the 1880s, my great-great grandfather's brother Malachi was thrown out of the Good Hope Baptist Church in Uchee, Alabama - he not only was caught dancing, he held a dancing party at his house! (the horror! the horror!)

The church minutes proclaim that he is not only disfellowshipped, but is "henceforth to be held as a heathen and a publican."

My dad commented, "Well, so long as he wasn't held as a heathen and a REpublican, I guess it's o.k. . . . "

"Don't be silly, daddy, there WEREN'T any Republicans in Alabama in 1880."

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe !

[NYCVirago]

First Dave Bliss, and now this. What an embarrassment.