Report: Rhodes College Chaplain Tries to Hold Unsanctioned BDSM Workshop

Breitbart ^ | November 16, 2023 | Katherine Hamilton

[Morgana]

The chaplain of a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, reportedly tried to hold a “BDSM workshop” on campus, Fox13 reported this week.

Rhodes College chaplain Rev. Beatrix Weil, an ordained Presbyterian minister, had planned to “host a local dominatrix to share wisdom on how to safely, sanely, and consensually learn about bondage, disciple, dominations, sadism-submission, and masochism,” according to the “BDSM 101 Workshop” invitation obtained by the outlet. The event was supposed to take place on the campus’ Burrow Hall, the report stated.

Rhodes College, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, told the outlet the proposed event was canceled on Friday “as soon as it came to our attention.”

“It was not a college-sanctioned event. No such event is planned for our campus,” the school said in a statement.

According to Commercial Appeal, the administration canceled the event on November 10.

“On Monday, conservative commentator and columnist Todd Starnes wrote about the situation critically, and asserted that many parents, alumni and donors, were enraged over Weil’s attempt to host it. Other media outlets published stories, too, and word of “BDSM 101” spread further,” according to the report. “A Fox13 Facebook post that shared its story about the controversy garnered more than 400 comments, with many vehemently condemning Weil and calling for her firing, and others supporting her.”

[Morgana]

You send your kids off to college to get a good education then this happens.

Yes it's the usual suspects.

[Verginius Rufus]

This college used to be Southwestern Presbyterian College. When it was located in Clarksville, Tennessee, Woodrow Wilson’s father was one of its professors. It moved to Memphis nearly 100 years ago and was called Southwestern at Memphis (also known as “the U by the zoo”). It changed its name to Rhodes College some decades ago.

[Morgana]

Was it conservative back then?

[blackdog]

A few blocks from my house. Most Rhodes faculty are bat crap crazy. A few really great ones.

[marron]

So, no longer necessary to be a Christian to be ordained as a Presbyterian minister.

[PAR35]

Hasn’t been for a long time in the PCUSA. From its founding by merger in 1983, it has gone from 3.1 million members to around 1.1 million members. And the losses are much larger if you take the pre-merger numbers from the mid-1960s to the present.

[PAR35]

Hasn’t been for a long time in the PCUSA. From its founding by merger in 1983, it has gone from 3.1 million members to around 1.1 million members. And the losses are much larger if you take the pre-merger numbers from the mid-1960s to the present.

[chickenlips]

So, no longer necessary to be a Christian to be ordained as a Presbyterian minister.
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She’s ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). They are off the rails. The solid churches they had in the denomination left it decades ago. Please don’t confuse PCUSA with other Presbyterian denominations like the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA), the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) and several others that still are solid in the faith.