Posted on 05/03/2022 7:34:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Calvin College faculty member had already been denied tenure because of his approach to LGBTQ issues.
(LifeSiteNews) – A Christian university committee recommended that a professor who officiated a same-sex “wedding” leave his teaching position once his contract expires this year.
In a memo issued last month, a dean at Calvin University called professor Joseph Kuilema’s decision to officiate the “wedding” of Nicole Sweda and Annica Steen a “serious lapse in judgment.”
Benita Wolters-Fredlund, dean of Calvin University’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, noted in the memo that while faculty at Calvin University can and do disagree with the LGBTQ+ guidance of the Christian Reformed Church, the school’s official denomination, they must do so within parameters determined by the college.
The memo also cited Kuilema’s “lack of transparency” with the university about his decision, and noted that he had been denied tenure in 2018 due to “concerns around his tone and strategy with regard to controversial theological topics and LGBT+ advocacy.”
While adding that the professor’s “many positive contributions to the community” made their decision a “heavy one,” Wolters-Fredlund concluded that his post-2018 appointments were a “de facto probationary period,” and that his officiation of the same-sex “wedding” was a “failure to meet the expectations placed on him during this period.”
The university’s written decision and its explanation were delivered to Kuilema on April 18.
Kuilema is a member of the denomination associated with the university, which opposes same-sex marriage. However, he told Religion News Service that upon consultation with the leaders of his own congregation, they supported his decision to preside over the “wedding” of the female couple.
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It’s their rules, it’s their right
Before 2015, the faggot brigade was forever assuring us that religious institutions could keep on practicing their beliefs unmolested if the fags got marriage redefined for themselves.
What else were they lying about?
Like there are no homo churches! Go to Poopland and have at it!
Shocked to actually see the CRC do this. They’ve been on a slippery slope down for quite a while. I grew up CRC but I cannot abide by their green and their white-guilt agenda.
Which Calvin College/U is it?
Humanity is in so much trouble. Self-inflicted through rebellion against God.
I must be old.
I remember when the schtick was "..We just want the government out of our bedrooms.."
IIRC that was in the late 70's.
I also remember the talk (and back in those pre-internet days it was literally talk).
They'll never stop. Give an inch and they'll take a mile..
Well looky, looky.. d;^)
Which Calvin College/U is it?
There's more than one?
This is the CRC denominational college, in Grand Rapids, MI.
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