Groups Say University Stadium Not Suitable for Promise Keepers

Northwest Arkansas Times ^ | May 16, 2005 | Marsha L. Melnichak

[Irontank]

I have to look at the rest of it as freedom of religion. I can’t get past that. We have to give them that; but, I don’t think that they should be meeting in places like the university.

I think these bigoted, anti-Christian multiculturalists are losing it.

[Tax-chick]

the Washington County Green Party and the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology

How curious. I guess they're demonstrating that "ecology" is a religion, and objecting to the appearance of a competing religion.

[inkling]

"Fight intolerance by not tolerating anyone different from you!"
-- A message from NOW, the Washington County Green Party and the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology.

[mollynme]

they want to educate men who are going to these events so they have the opportunity to think beyond Promise Keepers’ rhetoric, to what they called the propaganda behind it.

Then they should just rent the stadium like PK does and hold their own anti-Christian rally. Sheesh!

[Pittsburg Phil]

How the athiests (the Left) fear and hate Christianity.

Let us now the cowed by them. It is our country - One Nation Under God - not theirs.

[poindexters brother]

Tarvin, Bennett and Dietzel said their purpose is twofold. They want the university to bar Promise Keepers from the campus and they want to educate men who are going to these events so they have the opportunity to think beyond Promise Keepers’ rhetoric, to what they called the propaganda behind it.

Clearly these three believe are smarter than everyone else.

Typical arrogant liberals.

[TheBigB]

Promote diversity by barring a group from campus!

What is WRONG with me that, no matter how hard I try, I can't find one shred of logic in any liberal position?

[RobRoy]

"We try to promote thinking and critical analysis and then we let this huge meeting come in with this one narrow viewpoint and try to promote it to everyone on campus."

Imagine that, a narrow viewpoint being promoted on a college campus in the US.

Whoda' thunk it...

[Tax-chick]

Let us now the cowed by them.

Huh?

[johnb838]

There’s no way that competing viewpoints could get the stadium; they wouldn’t have enough people here,"

What is there to add to that?

[VeniVidiVici]

I don't give a rat patootie what these bigots think. It's a public venue.

[syriacus]

For NOW President Melanie Dietzel, the issue is the inappropriateness of a non-diverse group using the facilities of a diverse campus

In other words, diversity is A-OK, as long as it is NOW-approved diversity. That really means people with non-NOW points of view aren't allowed to express their points of view on state-owned property.

[poindexters brother]

There’s no way that competing viewpoints could get the stadium; they wouldn’t have enough people here," added Wanda Stephens, immediate pastpresident of the Arkansas National Organization of Women.

Good grief, what arrogant liberal, godless morons.

[tx_eggman]

There’s no way that competing viewpoints could get the stadium; they wouldn’t have enough people here

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other view." -- William F. Buckley

[massgopguy]

Deep Ecology IS a recognized religion and should be excluded from Public Forums.

[Raycpa]

I agree. They do have a narrow point of view. Who do they think they are? Imagine, a group which thinks keeping promises is something to be valued.

Which promises?

1. A Promise Keeper is committed to honoring Jesus Christ through worship, prayer and obedience to God's Word in the power of the Holy Spirit.

2. A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.

3. A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity.

4. A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages and families through love, protection and biblical values.

5. A Promise Keeper is committed to supporting the mission of his church by honoring and praying for his pastor, and by actively giving his time and resources.

6. A Promise Keeper is committed to reaching beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity.

7. A Promise Keeper is committed to influencing his world, being obedient to the Great Commandment (see Mark 12:30-31) and the Great Commission (see Matthew 28:19-20).

[syriacus]

We try to promote thinking and critical analysis and then we let this huge meeting come in with this one narrow viewpoint and try to promote it to everyone on campus.

Are the Promise Keepers forcing people to attend their gathering who aren't interested in attending?

[DB]

"... and we are promoting diversity at the university"

The irony is too much. Diversity as long as it fits their narrow view of the world... They claim to promote what they obviously don't know the meaning of.

[joesnuffy]

For example, he cited the Promise Keepers’ commitment to biblical values without identifying which biblical values, even though Bennett said the Bible has many contradictory values.

God is not tolerant..If the 10 commandments are any example

He just will not tolerate those who believe it is their right to break them..

I guess some folks just can't tolerate God's intolerance.

Or the idea that some things are right and other things are plain wrong.

[evets]