Baylor University Drops Ban on Homosexuality

The following is excerpted from “Baylor University Drops Ban,” Houston Chronicle, Jul. 7, 2015: “The world’s largest Baptist university has dropped a ban on ‘homosexual acts’ in its sexual conduct policy. After years of appeals from students, alumni and others, Baylor University revised its policy, dropping the ban on gay sex to ‘state more plainly the expectations of the university,’ a Baylor spokeswoman said Tuesday. ‘These changes were made because we didn’t believe the language reflected Baylor’s caring community,’ spokeswoman Lori Fogleman said in an email. ... Baylor’s previous policy called ‘homosexual acts’ a misuse of ‘God’s gift,’ along with sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest and adultery. ... The school’s updated policy, approved by Baylor’s board in May, is far more vague than its last one. It says the university will be guided by ‘the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God.’ Sex, the policy says, ‘is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity.’”

Concluding Comment: It is not an act of “care” or compassion to authorize something that God plainly forbids. Furthermore, it is impossible for homosexuals to express their sexuality “in the context of marital fidelity” when the Bible only endorses such a context for a man and a woman.

(Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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