Check out this item from The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscriber site) today. I’d say that subsequent actions vindicated Baylor in its decision ? one wouldn’t expect or sanction such action from a future church leader, would one?
A former seminary student at Baylor University whose scholarship was revoked when administrators learned he was gay was ordered by a judge last week to pay Baylor $77,000 as punishment for sending more than 1,000 offensive e-mail messages to university officials.
The messages contained pornographic photographs and, in one case, a phony obituary of a living administrator. “He was very prolific,” said Larry D. Brumley, a Baylor spokesman, who received several such messages himself.
I’m curious: why isn’t this being treated as a “hate crime”? Here you have someone sending people (a) of a different sexual preference (b) deliberately offensive e-mails of a sexual nature with (c) the intent to create a disruptive, uncomfortable climate. Then (d) sending death threats. Where’s Jesse Jackson, the ACLU, the candlelight vigils?
I said the story was initially amusing, and it is from a just-desserts perspective. Nevertheless, what makes it distressing is that my statement above that “one wouldn’t expect or sanction such action from a future church leader” turns out to be wrong. A little further in the story one reads:
Mr. Bass, who is now a theology student at Emory University
