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Faculty leaving University in droves over statement they must sign [W:89]

These are pretty standard at least at the high school and lower levels. Don't know about college level. Sounds like some kind of gay-marriage agitprop piece IMO.
 
lizzie said:
No, it isn't a slippery slope. There's a reason we have separation of church and state.
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State legislature in Virginia voted NOT to let a prosecutor become a judge, for the simple reason that he is gay.

It is indeed a slippery slope. The more homophobia becomes acceptable, the more gays will be discriminated against.
 
Lightdemon said:
The statement that they need to sign doesn't seem that extreme....those things only apply when they are "near campus". ;)
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If that's how it's interpreted - near campus - then I would agree it's not a big deal. I suspect the intent was to ban only drinking near campus, everything else everywhere.
 
Thunder said:
State legislature in Virginia voted NOT to let a prosecutor become a judge, for the simple reason that he is gay.

It is indeed a slippery slope. The more homophobia becomes acceptable, the more gays will be discriminated against.
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For some reason I don't think you'd harbor such concern for this judge if he believed abortion to be akin to murder and he was voted out by the KKK's political party of choice.
 
Is there a quote of the actual statement from the contract?
 
"Homophobia" is a such a moronic word.
 
Its a private entity, this is well within reason to do this.

Funny enough, I conform to their behavior standards very well.
 
Josie said:
Of course it is. No one is afraid of gay people.
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oh, there are definitely MANY people who are afraid of gays and homosexuality.

they are afraid that if they are near gays, they might get hit on....and even like it.
 
The "Personal Lifestyle Statement" requires employees to reject homosexuality, premarital sex, adultery, drug use.


Funny I don't see drug users, who far outnumber gays, incensed about this. This bigoted drugphopbia has gone too far!
 
megaprogman said:
Where do you usually put it?
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I'd probably put it in the bull**** bin along with "racist", which basically means "anyone who isn't a like-minded left wing bigot like me", when originally it meant something quite different.

The whole aversion and in some dictionaries discrimination are all inserts of recent vintage. Think they started adding it about 10 years ago. 12 year old websters doesn't have it.
 
vendur said:
I'd probably put it in the bull**** bin along with "racist", which basically means "anyone who isn't a like-minded left wing bigot like me", when originally it meant something quite different.

The whole aversion and in some dictionaries discrimination are all inserts of recent vintage. Think they started adding it about 10 years ago. 12 year old websters doesn't have it.
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By what possible right does this school think it can dictate the private lives of its employees? Anything off of school grounds is none of their business.
 
Paschendale said:
By what possible right does this school think it can dictate the private lives of its employees? Anything off of school grounds is none of their business.
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Well, according to some crazy people I've talked to, teachers should never swear, insult anyone or annoy people online. :p If they do, they're HORRIBLE TEACHERS AND SHOULD BE FIRED!!!!
 
Paschendale said:
By what possible right does this school think it can dictate the private lives of its employees? Anything off of school grounds is none of their business.
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It's a weird document called the constitution. Only racist homopobes care about it. I say we wrap them all up in and burn them.
 
Josie said:
Well, according to some crazy people I've talked to, teachers should never swear, insult anyone or annoy people online. :p If they do, they're HORRIBLE TEACHERS AND SHOULD BE FIRED!!!!
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So they can't be human basically?
 
It does seem to be difficult for some folks to read even the very short bit I quoted to start this thread and also to understand just what has happened at Shorter University.

The school is 139 years old, not something out of the 60s like Liberty, Regent and Oral Roberts. So it has tradition, it has always been a Baptist school but about six years ago, there was some type of political fight and a group of strict fundamentalists seized control of the Board of Trustees and since then they have gradually forced onto the University their ideas.

It was only in October of last year that this doctrinal statement was added to the employment contract. The question I have is - Why? Why now? What changed at the school that brought about this new direction, something that had not been forced upon the faculty and employees in previous years?

Here's a bit more from Inside Higher Ed
Faith statements or lifestyle requirements are not unusual at Christian colleges. But at Shorter, the statement is the clearest indicator of the impact of a court battle the university lost six years ago, when the college and the Georgia Baptist Convention went to the Georgia Supreme Court to determine who would control the college's board of trustees and, ultimately, its direction. At the time, Baptist colleges around the country were breaking away from their state conventions. In some cases, disputes were about doctrine, such as policies on gay students and faculty. In other cases, including Shorter, they were about institutional control.
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