Pastors force gay student to step down as group leader - outcry erupts (Cornell Univ)

[Muttocracy]

One of the things I love about my alma mater is that it was founded with NO religious affiliation and has been ahead of the curve at welcoming students discriminated against most places. Hope the administration takes this seriously. The local community in Ithaca probably won't look on this very fondly either...

Cornell Daily Sun (independent student paper)

http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2009/04/23/outcry-erupts-alleged-homophobia
Outcry Erupts from Alleged Homophobia
Gay student asked to step down from leadership post by Christian group
April 23, 2009
By Alex Berg

A campus Christian group that receives funding from the student activity fee is coming under scrutiny after a student was asked by advisors to step down from its leadership team when he told them that he had openly accepted his homosexuality. This incident is also raising questions about the effectiveness of campus mechanisms for addressing instances of discrimination.

Chris Donohoe ’09, who joined the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship when he was a freshman, said he had been openly struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his faith in Chi Alpha before he was asked to step down from the leadership team by Matt and Tracy Herman, the organization’s pastors. The Hermans, both members of Chi Alpha at Missouri State University before graduating in 2002, became Cornell Chi Alpha’s campus pastors in 2006.

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D’Ambrosio explained that Donohoe was asked to step down because he no longer believed his sexuality was a sin and stopped actively working to overcome it, disregarding the Bible.

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Because Chi Alpha is an independent student organization registered with Cornell’s Student Activities Office, the situation has provoked a reaction from Cornell administrators.

“We are very concerned with what happened and we want to make sure this is a campus that does not discriminate in this way,” Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67 said.


long article at the link

[izquierdista]

1. Sexuality not a sin?

I've got news for Chris, ANY type of sexuality is a sin, according to the founders of Christianity. Read the early history of the church, and you will find a vile disgust at anything carnal.

[Ian David]

2. Conservatives want to shoot you in the head if you touch your penis. n/t

[foxfeet]

3. Some of 'em want to touch your penis, THEN shoot you in the head. n/t

[Ian David]

5. There is THAT. n/t

[Deep13]

4. Fine. Give back the cash.

The 1st Amed. gives them the right to be bigoted assholes, but there is no reason the other students should be paying for it.