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Breakpoint

Baylor and the Road of Good Intentions

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

The last few years, Christian colleges have faced a crisis of how to respond to increasingly vocal calls to "accommodate" LGBT students. 

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With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

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The last few years, Christian colleges have faced a crisis of how to respond to increasingly

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loud calls to accommodate LGBTQ students.

0:12.6

Many stayed committed to historic Christian teaching, but others flipped a lot.

0:16.1

And a few others attempted half-measures.

0:18.6

For example, Baylor University chartered an LGBT-centered campus group while keeping their

0:23.3

students' actual standards intact.

0:25.8

While unsurprisingly, this club, known as Prism, has now progressed beyond merely providing

0:30.3

a space for LGBT students to come together, and now two deleted Instagram posts, Prism

0:35.9

advertised events, promoting, quote, queer sex ed, and information about the origins and

0:41.2

significance of the colors and flags of the LGBT movement.

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This is a classic case of the so-called road of good intentions.

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Christians are called to love one another and their neighbors in the watching world.

0:51.4

But when the church takes its understanding of what love is from the world, the water

0:55.3

down counterfeit eventually leads us to endorse whatever sins are currently culturally

1:00.3

popular.

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Love always means working for another's good, not just for the good of their feelings.

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The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

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