Baylor exec defends Planned Parenthood's sex-ed program

Florida Baptist Witness ^ | 5/19/05 | Florida Baptist Witness

[wagglebee]

“If there’s a program out there that will reduce the number of unwanted teen pregnancies, I’m in favor of it,” Underwood said.

There is you idiot, it's called ABSTINENCE.

[wagglebee]

Planned Parenthood ping.

[basil]

Underwood, a professor of law at Baylor who was named the university’s interim president April 29, stated to Baptist Press that his 16-year-old daughter had attended Nobody’s Fool two or three times

Well--there you have it! His daughter is obviously a slow learner!

This is nothing more than people who have an agenda for this country (namely, making premarital sex, abortion, and gay sex the norm) getting a foot in another door.

God must be really proud that some of His (supposedly) churches are helping with programs such as this.

[LibFreeOrDie]

...his 16-year-old daughter had attended Nobody’s Fool two or three times...

Once wasn't enough? Why doesn't he discuss these issues with his own kids instead of handing them over to PP?

[kcvl]

Underwood, a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the University of Illinois Law Review, graduated as salutatorian of his class, and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Following graduation from law school, Underwood completed a prestigious federal judicial clerkship with the Honorable Sam D. Johnson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Prior to joining the Baylor faculty in 1990, Underwood practiced civil trial law with Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, an elite litigation firm based in Dallas. He took a two-year leave of absence from the faculty between 1997-98 to serve as Baylor's general counsel.

Underwood, who holds an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma Baptist University, has published extensively in the field of civil practice and procedure, including articles that have led to significant changes in federal and state procedural law. He also is a high-profile courtroom lawyer who continues to successfully represent clients in a variety of civil and criminal cases.

Underwood is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and has served as Reporter to the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

[Unam Sanctam]

How can anybody who believes in traditional Christian morality have anything to do with Planned Parenthood? This president is either a fool or has an agenda to introduce the thin end of the wedge of contemporary sexual mores into a Christian institution.

[wagglebee]

They seem to have omitted that he is a leftist abortofascist defender of the homosexual agenda.

[wagglebee]

This president is either a fool or has an agenda to introduce the thin end of the wedge of contemporary sexual mores into a Christian institution.

Actually, I think he's both.

[Zack Nguyen]

FReepers who are not Southern Baptist may be confused as to why the President of Baylor University (a Southern Baptist college) is spouting such nonsense when his denomination is so conservative.

The answer is, the conservatives were able to throw out of power most of the liberals in the Southern Baptist Convention about 20 years ago, yet the Baptist General Convention of Texas remains uniquely moderate/leftist.

All six Southern Baptist seminaries are run by people who hold the Bible to be the absolute inerrant word of God. This happened as a result of the conservative takeover. These people turn out most of the pastors and missionaries.

However there are Baptist colleges in Texas not directly impacted by the SBC takeover, and have remained liberal. Baylor is not a conservative university. Waco is not a conservative town.

A new conservative organization has been formed called the Southern Baptists of Texas which is an alternative to the BGCT. Its confusing but Baptists are getting the hint - the SBT has been around for just seven years and has over 1600 churches either uniquely or dually aligned with it.

[wagglebee]

Thanks for the info. I had always assumed that Baylor was a conservative Southern Baptist school with a decent athletic program.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

For the umpteenth time, disapproval isn't hate. But indifference isn't love either. Accepting the premise that a child is gay is harmful to the child. When political activists want to intimidate everyone into silence by defining their legitimate objections as hate, then we had better not let them get away with it if we want any chance to do right by our children at all. Why are people such suckers? They have homophobiaphobia I guess. I wish they would stop being suckers and start really standing up for these kids who are being completely CORRUPTED by the deviant left.

[loneroofer]

For one with such high accolades you would think he would investigate at least a little before he entrusted his daughter to indoctrination from a planned parenthood program. He obviously is in agreement with their moral base as he didn't even see the book offered(Its Perfectly Normal) to get a glimpse into what is taught.This is an influence worth worrying about.

[wagglebee]

After his daughter is converted to lesbianism while sitting in the Planned Parenthood waiting room before her abortion he will probably have second thoughts.

[WoodstockCat]

very well written and 100% true.

[demkicker]

Good Lord, I'm just flat out speechless! The devil is surely chipping away and making headway in a most unlikely place, striking down hard at a premire conservative university. This man's decision will surely send shock waves throughout Texas and beyond.

[Nyboe]

good grief.

[NativeTxn]

Please don't be fooled by Baylor being Baptist! It is any thing but a christian school and I think much worse because people send their kids there thinking it is a good conservative Christian school and it is not. I remember 10 years ago a friend from St. Louis, Mo sent her daughter down here to go to Baylor and she didn't even finish the first semester because of what she found there.

[Weirdad]

I appreciate your post and understand what you mean, but would clarify two points so that Waco and Baylor are not written off as lost to the left:

(1) Waco most certainly IS a conservative town in the overall sentiments of the students and much of the faculty, but just like the United States itself, much of the media is liberal and they give excess attention to small groups of non-conservatives and try to convince everyone that everyone thinks the way they do. It does not work too well in Waco any more as a result of the new media. Liberal politicians have more say than they deserve as a result of a lot of this. It's a conservative town under attack.

(2) Baylor may not be a genuinely conservative university, but it has a distinctly conservative student population and despite the slow slide to the left it's been experiencing, it remains distinctly Christian when compared to other "Christian" schools from those long lost, like Yale and Harvard, to those more recently lost, like SMU and TCU. It's a conservative school that remains under intense attack and conservatives should run to the battle there rather than giving up.

My point in this is that those who have any influence in Waco or at Baylor should not give up: the "red" people outnumber the "blue" people vastly here and the fight is not lost.

Articles like this one posted are the tip of the spear in the fight to keep someone like Underwood from achieving permanent power.

Don't give up contested ground just because it's not as comfy to us as our obvious strongholds.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

Baylor is a Baptist university? Sounds like they need a real Baptist for a president.

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