Posted on 06/15/2022 10:58:02 AM PDT by Morgana
Graduating students at a religious university handed the interim school president rainbow pride flags during commencement in protest of the school's ban on hiring LGBTQ+ staff.
In an act of defiance graduating student from Seattle Pacific University handed interim president Pete Menjares a rainbow pride flag instead of a handshake during the university's commencement ceremony on Sunday.
The Board of Trustees at SPU, a religious educational institution affiliated with the Free Methodist Church USA, voted last month to uphold a policy that bars the hiring of LGBTQ+ people.
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According to the university's non-discrimination policy, the institution 'reserves the right to prefer employees or prospective employees on the basis of religion.'
The university says it expects employees to hold certain religious beliefs- including that they refrain from same-sex sexual activity, extramarital sex and cohabitating before marriage.
Board Chair Cedric Davis said that the board's decision was in line with the school's mission as a Methodist university.
While this decision brings complex and heart-felt reactions, the Board made a decision that it believed was most in line with the university's mission and Statement of Faith and chose to have SPU remain in communion with its founding denomination, the Free Methodist Church USA, as a core part of its historical identity as a Christian university,' Davis said in a statement last month
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revoke their diplomas
They weren’t there for a religious based education; they were fifth columnists.
They chose to go to a religious school, then they spit on it.
yep. their goal is to worm their way into Christian institutions and destroy them from within.
“Sweet, now we can have a flag burning after the ceremony!”
The diplomas don’t matter. Nothing does.
They’ve tried infiltrating Christian institutions for over 100 years. All that happens is they succeed in grabbing one church, then run it into the ground until nobody goes anymore.
Everyone went off to another church or congregation, so it grew. Then the leftists have to target that one. Sometimes they are successful, sometimes not. When they are, the process starts all over again.
Probably within a few short years the Feds will step in and strip tax exempt status from churches that don’t take a knee. People are already preparing for that day.
Isn’t the United Methodist church left leaning?
It's a Free Methodist school. The Free Methodists are more conservative than United Methodists.
They’re leftists. Crap like this is standard operating procedure
Board Chairman said:
“While this decision brings complex and heart-felt reactions, the Board made a decision”
This is why we lose.
Attack, attack, attack, or the left will destroy you.
GREAT response from him. The egomaiacal GenZ'ers will be furious that he isn't mad about it.
And they accept these THEYS for what rea$$$$$$on?
Pffft, loser.
Should have just let the fag flags drop to the ground and be ignored.
Toss it on the ground, grind it under foot, order them off the stage, and don’t giver them their diplomas - ever.
He should have paused the ceremony and had someone bring him a shredder and plug it in.
Graduate at job interview: “I have a BA from SPU.” Interviewer: “Do you have your diploma?” Person wanting job: “I do, but I can’t show it to you.” Interviewer: “NEXT”
Instant Karma, what did they think they were going to a religious based school for? They flunked the final exam. PERIOD.
“yep. their goal is to worm their way into Christian institutions and destroy them from within.”
Exactly. Our church had fag week festivities years ago so all the poofters came and made a ruckus, disrespecting the mass. After the parishioners complained about it, they never had one. Guess what? The fags never showed up.
They were just there not to celebrate Christ but their own perversions.
He should have withheld their diploma to see how dedicated they really are to their cause.
A lot of the comments deal with how the interim president should have dealt with this provocation in a way that would uphold the integrity of this religious-based college. The truth is more likely that the school, located in the “heart” (evil has no heart) of Seattle, is RINO - religious in name only.
It would not surprise me to find that the interim president embraces the current fashionable (read: debauched) lifestyle.
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