Page 15 of the new student handbook of Cedarville University tells students to obey “the laws of the land.” However, there’s at least one law the Ohio evangelical college doesn’t support: the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states. The school’s “Commitment to Purity,” printed on page 12 of the handbook, begins, “We believe that God’s design at creation for sexual desire and orientation is within the bounds of a marriage union between a man and a woman.” Cedarville prohibits students from engaging in not only same-sex dating, but also “public advocacy for the position that sex outside of a biblically defined marriage is morally acceptable.”
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NewIt strikes me....
….that fornication of various types has been legal for decades, and colleges of various stripes have not been penalized for prohibiting that by their students. Same thing with alcohol, tobacco, movies, etc.. Now this may work out differently, starting with the simple fact that there is no big fornicators’ lobby in the way that there is a homosexual lobby, but the idea that a college may ban legal behaviors does not ipso facto lead to a loss of tax exempt status.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
NewBert
Keep telling yourself that, friend. Have you been paying attention to the pro-homosexual lobby?
This isn’t about “having some fun under the sheets”. This is about right and wrong, and they want to vilify you until you are defeated. In their view YOU are wrong. And they aren’t quitting any time soon….
NewCivil rights
This is now a civil rights issue, which completely changes the game. It’s not about prohibiting fornication, alcohol, smoking, or Pinochle - the way this will play out IMO is if colleges allow dating, then they have to allow same-sex dating, or possibly lose federal funding and access to federal/state college aid programs.
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