{"id":329,"date":"2005-02-24T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/24\/how-did-i-miss-this\/"},"modified":"2005-02-24T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T22:18:19","slug":"how-did-i-miss-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/24\/how-did-i-miss-this","title":{"rendered":"How Did I Miss This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I somehow missed this article from the Stanford Daily a few weeks ago : Christian Groups Sue Universities Nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

some Christian groups have been successful in forcing colleges to allow them to bar gay students and atheists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s an awfully loaded<\/s> interesting way to describe what\u2019s been happening. It makes it sound as though the Christian groups are agitating for rights previously denied them instead of reacting to new university policies which undermine their beliefs. For a different take, read Christianity Today\u2019s weblog<\/a> (and this follow-up<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Junior Rosabelle Oribello, the LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered] Center\u2019s liaison to on-campus residences, believes the current political atmosphere at Stanford will help prevent the outbreak of such a controversy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it will happen at this campus because the message the center has gotten from the religious groups has been that they are pretty affirming of LGBTs,\u201d she said. \u201cThough I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like on other college campuses, we have a pretty liberal campus and that goes far in reducing the chances of these kinds of conflicts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While many religious groups at Stanford clearly do affirm whatever sexual choices you make, many others do not. You would have no clue based on this article. That\u2019s odd.<\/p>\n

[Scotty] McLennan agreed with Oribello\u2019s reasoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanford is a very pluralistic environment, religious and in other ways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many students believe that it is this politically-homogeneous atmosphere that prevents the difficulties faced at other schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The contrast between one sentence and the next is striking: \u201cpluralistic environment\u201d switched to \u201cpolitically homogeneous.\u201d That it wasn\u2019t caught by the reporter or the copyeditor is revealing\u2013the pluralism that Stanford presupposes is a superficial pluralism which focuses on color, culture, and sexual conduct but which usually ignores convictions. In other words, ideological diversity is the one sort of diversity that is frowned upon.<\/p>\n

On that note, I find it curious that the author apparently didn\u2019t seek to interview anyone who disagreed with his presuppositions. Of the three religious groups he did interview, none had been involved in the lawsuits on other campuses. That\u2019s worth noting simply because the article mentions InterVarsity at Tufts by name and there\u2019s a very active InterVarsity chapter here on the Farm<\/a>. I wonder what they would have said had they been asked?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in stuff like this, Andy Crouch has a great article called Campus Collisions<\/a> that explains why InterVarsity, in particular, is more likely to get involved in lawsuits than the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I somehow missed this article from the Stanford Daily a few weeks ago : Christian Groups Sue Universities Nationwide. some Christian groups have been successful in forcing colleges to allow them to bar gay students and atheists. That\u2019s an awfully loaded interesting way to describe what\u2019s been happening. It makes it sound as though the \u2026 Continue reading \u201cHow Did I Miss This?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}