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Steve King - Parent
4/12/2005, 9:48:22 a.m.
I will be the first one to support Blaise Shaw-Hartman's right to promise never to donate money to Mars Hill College again. I support this right because I would do the same as well as encourage others to do the same had MHC recognized Open Doors. Mars Hill is a Baptist school with a rich Baptist heritage.
To part from that heritage by abandoning traditional and historical Christian values is not what most N.C. Baptist want. Take a look at the N.C. Biblical Record story on the break that Virginia Baptist are making with one of their colleges over the same issue. I support the right of the school through its trustees to go any direction that it cares. I simply do not think that N.C. Baptists should support nor testify to the wholesomeness of a "Christian" education where the school, its faculty and students turn from Scripture.
I've seen a lot of interpretation of Scripture by one professor from the religion department which supports homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle. While this is an interpretation, it should be noted that it is an interpretation that is not supported by centuries of Christian theologians. To take this stand is to start from a position one wants to arrive at and then look for ways to twist Scripture to suit one's purpose.
To stand on the traditional Christian belief that homosexuality is sin is to take the most reasonable interpretation of Scripture as the most likely. This is the way we are supposed to interpret Scripture according to my professors in seminary. After all, would the apostol Paul have abandoned his Jewish belief in sexual purity just to conform to gentile practices? I don't think so!
I pray that the President Lundsford and the trustees of this fine school that means so much to us will begin to address the shift from the Biblical beliefs that were so important to those that founded this school and are important to those of us who send our children from Christian homes to the school now.
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