Posted on 07/23/2014 10:05:19 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
Over the past five years, an underground movement has been burgeoning on evangelical Christian campuses. Although many of these colleges explicitly ban “homosexual behavior,” they are now home to dozens of LGBT-friendly student groups. The umbrella organization Safety Net, founded in December 2011, encompasses groups from approximately 75 different evangelical Christian colleges. Some of these groups are tiny, and many operate in near-secret. But over the past two weeks, an LGBT group at Gordon College has made itself impossible to ignore.
When we, the authors, attended Gordon College over a decade ago, the vast majority of administrators, faculty, and students simply assumed that the Bible prohibited same-sex attraction. Nestled on Boston’s North Shore, this small outpost of evangelical Protestantism taught us that it was wrong to be gay—not just wrong, but explicitly condemned by both God and the college code of conduct....
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Not so for today’s Gordon students. This past Monday, President Obama signed the Non-Discrimination Executive Order for LGBT people, which will deny federal funding to any university that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Gordon’s President D. Michael Lindsay was one of a number of prominent evangelical leaders who sent a letter to President Obama, asking for an exemption from the order. (Other signatories included Catholic Charities head Fr. Larry Snyder and megachurch pastor Rick Warren.) In other words, Lindsay asked Obama for permission to do what the College has always done: refrain from hiring people who engage in “homosexual behavior.”
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Ooops...my bad. I was, of course, referring to Gordon-Conwell in my commentary.
I hope it is safe, at least for now. :-)
Thanks for the correction.
once again....Hillsdale, Grove City, WAAAAAAY ahead of the curve.
Satan is gathering as many as he can devour in these latter days before Jesus returns to judge the world. This comes as no surprise to those who know Scripture.
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
it is the “younger” shift in morays that will hurry it along.
...just keeping things r’eel’...
Oh....CHANGING.....hummmmm.....I guess they meant destroying, belittling, demeaning, debasing, ridiculing and all those other type things, right?
Have students register here
http://www.newmanconnection.com/
The Newman Center can lead straight students to other straight clubs too.
Amazing how they keep adding letters!
LGBT. What next?
The “caliphate” will be slitting throats in the Vatican long before they turn their attention to Gordon-Conwell.
AMERICA NEEDS TO GET BACK TO ‘MAJORITY RULES’, NOT ‘HIJACKED BY THE FEW!’
Two percent of the population couldn’t spread their contamination without the help of heterosexual co-conspirators who long ago threw out "traditional, natural marriage," perverted it with civil divorce, Playboy, the condom and the Pill, broke down all the norms of Holy Matrimony as a sacred, fertile, exclusive, lifelong union, deconstructed it piece by piece and turned it into "what I want or as long as I want it" --- in otherwise, they universalized gay marriage for straights. No wonder the gays want in.
No wonder the gays want in.
...gays want in because of the tax benefits accruing to spouses, particularly upon transfer of assets after death...absent that, and civil unions suit them just fine...
It's the old shrimp-and-linsey-woolsey argument (Don't bother me with Leviticus!" They seem to have missed everything that 2,000 years of detailed and profoundly significant, reasoned discourse about the levels and kinds of law found in the Hebrew Scriptures: mainly, cultural separation codes, health-safety best practices, the rubrics of ritual conduct, and moral law. They also ignored the fact that New Testament Law superseded Old Testament Law, since the OT law "brought nothing to perfection" (Hebrews 7:19).
The Gay Christians and their allies seem to think they're among the first to realize that, OMG, Christians don't keep kosher. And following upon that, it appears they think they can just take an x-acto knife and a tweezers, extract a couple of verses about shrimp, adulterers and Canaanites, wad them up into a spitball and whap them into somebody's eye, and that settles the argument.
In other words, they argue like a clipart-cartoon fundamentalists.
I think they could probably do better, and --- I don't think I'm alone in saying this --- I'd like to see them try.
...gays want in because of the tax benefits...
I had wished it had been a couple of conservative gays that had pushed for the change. And not to change the marriage laws, but the tax laws.
The plague need a host..can not directly reproduce but is viral and parasitic.. but it consumes its host, once out of willing host, it dies .
Do not despair ..maintain your integrity and survive the dark times
I must confess that I had no idea what you were talking about until I went back and read the comments. I wouldn’t put much thought into the comments about the Old Testament laws. They are obviously made by someone who has only read scripture to denounce Christian beliefs. It’s Satan at his best. It’s his way of working. Make salvation and Christian life appear to be based on man’s actions. It causes people to take their eyes off of God’s grace.
Yes, but those benefits used to come at a price. You didn’t get them unless you committed to a lifelong arrangement that was enforceable by law.
The straights abandoned that for convenience’s sake, and that is what makes the arrangement attractive. If homos had to actually stay with each other for life, I don’t think they would be be so keen on it.
Gross! Didn’t read because of their horrendous picture of homosexuals pressing lips. Disgusting.
Are they run by homosexuals? Just wondering, because they’ve had lots of pro-homosexuality articles lately.
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