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Cassandra Rising - Freshman
4/6/2005, 10:32:39 a.m.
I believe this is the most cowardly stance anyone has made on this issue. If the Students for Christian Values group started a month ago, then why didn't we know who they were until now? Also, why would they want to play dirty politics and sneak around in order to gain support? Are they ashamed to be serving God? Why else would they have kept a low profile?
I would like to state that we live in the year 2005. This may be a new concept for some people to grasp, but, hear me out. There have been advances in technology, in biology, in medicine, in everything. Being the Christian I am, I have found the need to advance also. Religions based solely on tradition are without substance and rarely survive. That's why there isn't any slavery anymore, because the Southern people and all else who owned slaves had to forfeit their slaves at first, but then recognized that in order for the society to trhive and continue they had to change with the times.
There is also this thought: I am a freshman. In the few months I've been here I've noticed something. I chose the school for its Baptist heritage. However, when I actually started attending, it seemed to me that the school did not exemplify any Christian heritage at all. Yes, there are CSM, NBS, the Refuge, IXA, IAO, and FCA, but those organizations combined make up a very small percentage of the student population.
Honestly, I think time would be better spent if the Students for Traditional Christian Values addressed topics such as Rape, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Violence, and all. Ideas everyone in our society agrees on that are morally wrong, and save the topic of homosexuality for a time when everyone is more educated and it has been investigated to its fullest potential.
Still, I will not say whether homosexuality is right or worng, because I feel that is a judgement God can make, not I. But in the meantime, I prefer to not play the coward. I will not agree with an idea just because my mother and father do. I will keep my religion surviving... keeping up with the times.
~A Student For Progressive Christian Values
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