Christian college to discuss firings for homosexual acts

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[chance33_98]

Christian college to discuss firings for homosexual acts

By the Associated Press

Published April 12, 2004

HARRISONBURG, Va. -- Eastern Mennonite University President Loren Swartzendruber has agreed to meet students to discuss the dismissal of two professors for homosexual acts and the resignation of another in protest.

Swartzendruber agreed to attend the forum Tuesday at the request of a small group of students at the Christian school.

"We will not tolerate bigotry, poor language, inappropriate comments about persons of any sexual orientation," he said.

Eastern Mennonite is a private school founded in 1917. Most of its 1,400 students are Mennonites, whose members are pacifists and adopt a simple lifestyle.

At EMU, students and faculty agree to a "community lifestyle commitment" that requires them to "refrain from sexual relationships outside of marriage, pornography, acts of violence, abusive or demeaning language" and the use of alcohol or tobacco.

[BibChr]

Why does an AP article need to be excerpted?

/c8?

[international american]

Here come de lawsuits
Here come de judge...

[Dataman]

A refreshing haven from PC insanity.

If this article is supposed to stir a controversy, it would only be because those fired were malakoi*, not because they violated their own contracts.

*Ancient Greek derogatory term for effeminate homosexuals. There was no neutral term. The only other term used meant "boy lover" (arsenokoitias).

[baltodog]

So let me understand this:

Even though the rules plainly state what is required, certain groups of people feel they have the right not to obey them.

I am willing to bet that if a heterosexual couple had relations, they too would would lose their jobs.

These are Mennonites, people...let's get real. There is an agenda at work here. Why would a homosexual person even think that his or her behavior would be accepted by the Mennonites?

[Always Right]

At EMU, students and faculty agree to a "community lifestyle commitment" that requires them to "refrain from sexual relationships outside of marriage, pornography, acts of violence, abusive or demeaning language" and the use of alcohol or tobacco.

Wonder how many students need to be expelled?

[Blue Screen of Death]

What would the PC crowd do if two professors (not necessarily at this school) were to carry out a homosexual act in class, but each was also carrying a gun?

[Always Right]

What would the PC crowd do if two professors (not necessarily at this school) were to carry out a homosexual act in class, but each was also carrying a gun?

They would rationalize. They would say something like gays have a right since they are hated by Christians so much.

[chance33_98]

The website it was posted from popped up the requirement to auto-excerpt, just to be safe I did so.

[george wythe]

students and faculty agree to a "community lifestyle commitment" that requires them to "refrain from sexual relationships outside of marriage

All of my Christian college buddies were virgins who waited until marriage to have sex.

None of the Christian college students ever had sex with their girlfriends.

Yes, we all "refrained from sexual relationships outside of marriage." What a great college life!

[ApplegateRanch]

Katie Resendiz, who describes herself as "queer," participated in an April 2 protest seeking the forum.

"It's really hard to live in a community where you are watching other people get ridiculed or ostracized," she said.

Then choose to live in a community more to your liking, rather than attempt to force your (lack of?) values on this one. Last time I looked, no one forces one to enroll at a particular private college.

I understand that is how several major schools were founded; faculty and students that felt disaffected where they were, left and began fresh. I believe one of those is now known as Princeton.

[Corin Stormhands]

These are Mennonites, people...let's get real. There is an agenda at work here. Why would a homosexual person even think that his or her behavior would be accepted by the Mennonites?

Because there are Mennonite congregations who do just that. They call themselves "affirming."

We used to attend a Mennonite-affiliated (interdenominational) church. There was major unrest when the elders disciplined an avowed homosexual. He was not told to leave the church, but was told he could not take communion or hold any leadership position. He left soon after and went to an "affirming" congregation.

A friend's first wife left him because she decided she was lesbian. They were both ministers. He left the ministry after the divorce. As far as I know, she never did.