Evangelical college gay rights stand causes uproar

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141102/us--evangelical_college-gays-1f32b20eab.html

By RACHEL ZOLL

WENHAM, Mass. (AP) — D. Michael Lindsay thought he was on safe political ground when he signed the letter.

President Barack Obama was about to expand job protection for gays employed by federal contractors. Under the proposed changes, faith-based charities with federal grants worried they could lose the right to hire and fire according to their religious beliefs. Religious leaders flooded the White House with pleas to maintain or broaden the exemption.

Among them was one endorsed by Lindsay, president of Gordon College, a small evangelical school, and 13 evangelical and Roman Catholic leaders.

In the end, Obama left the existing exemption in place. But it was no victory for Lindsay.

FULL story at link.



ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, NOV. 3, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- In this Sept. 11, 2014 photo, Paul O. Miller, a 2008 Gordon College graduate and founder of OneGordon, an LGBT rights group, speaks during an interview in Boston. "There should be the same sexual ethic for GLBT and heterosexual students," said Miller. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

[shenmue]

1. Oh my stars

"Love one another as I have loved you."

Not really hard to understand.

[Joe Magarac]

2. I am still opposed to "faith based" outfits getting tax money. Even nice ones. n/t