Comments on: What kind of dialogue will we have?

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:04 +0000

Well said, Warren.

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:04 +0000

@ Timothy –

LOL 🙂

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:04 +0000

Warren, in my experience in many denominations (“different evangelical groups” as one comment stated), there is concurrence that bullying is wrong….bullying of anyone. That should be the focus of DoS. You ask: what are you going to do to end the bullying? How about focusing on ALL BULLYING! Because it focuses on bullying of GLB specifically, then why criticize DoD for dealing with GLB issue from their perspective, which happens to be the Biblical perspective? I don’t consider it the “evangelical perspective”, just because some denominations (i.e. Episcopal) want to be PC and have redefined scripture to fit its human view.

Your dismissal of DoD stiffles the voice of many who hold deep values, making them feel like second-class citizens. Must everyone in society validtate and normalize the gay lifestyle to live as acceptable in this country?

If rational “evengelicals” are not allowed their voice, then the Fred Phelps of the world will tkeep trying to take the world’s stage….and no one wants that.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:04 +0000

@Julie: As an Episcopalian I take offense at the assertion that TEC (among others) is simply attempting to be PC and redefining Scripture. The Fundamentals began this type of attack against Biblical scholarship back at the beginning of the 20th century when historical and textual criticism were in their infancy. Link to that the more accurate picture of Biblical history provided by the scientific strides in archeology and the wider influence of multiculturism. It took how many hundred years for the Vatican to acknowledge that Galileo was actually correct? How many more years will it take for Fundamentalists to acknowledge that scholarship is not the enemy of faith but a lens for sharper understanding?

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:04 +0000

As it stands, on Friday, the DoS students will ask for a conversation about anti-gay name-calling and bullying and then on Monday, the DoD students will answer with a defense of evangelical beliefs about sexuality. To me, that seems like two groups talking about two different things.

That’s because it is two groups talking about two different things. Conservatives want to ride the coat-tails of a day set aside to promote tolerance for gay and lesbian people and make it about Evangelical understanding of sexuality, which, as I write this, I realize is an even a more complex thing as Evangelicals differ on the topic.

So what DoD really wants to talk about is one Evangelical group’s understanding of sexuality.