My thoughts are swirling from the decision that my alma mater made yesterday, choosing to change their hiring guidelines so that they will hire practicing LGBTQ faculty because they will not discriminate. Now, despite my firm belief that homosexuality in practice (not in identity) is wrong, I am finding this decision contradictory to the schools belief system and the standards that they have asked students to uphold in the comunity lifestyle agreement: Students are not to practice premartial sex. This agreement is signed upon completeion of application to the school, whether the student knows it or not.
The contradiction is this: how can staff and faculty mentor and represent these guidelines if they are practicing homosexuality in a committed relationship that is not marriage? Now our government is attempting to change the definition of marriage in our culture, but EMU has a higher calling to uphold what the Bible says, which is that Marriage is between a man and a woman. If EMU proclaims to be a Christian Univeristy, following the Bible, they should also follow what the Bible says about marriage. We are called to "not conform to that patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds" in Christ Jesus. "To have pure religion is this: ..to remain unstained by the world."
Ask yourselves, those of you who made this decision, whether you have honestly and completely continued to renew your minds in Christ Jesus and remained unstained by the world.
If you are a teacher of Christ Jesus, and a leader and guide to those who are younger in their faith, you are upheld to a stricter judgment. Those who cause a young child to stumble in their faith, "it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea."
We are not called to change what the Bible says.
We are called to live what the Bible has taught and reminded us through its teachings.
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