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11/17/2005

More on the merciless murder of Mercer's mercurial LGBT...damn, no synonym for 'group' begins with 'mer'

by Jeremy Hooper

It seems that the implications made earlier this week that Mercer University was semi-supportive of their gay student group and that it was the Georgia Baptist Convention who were the big meanies who forced the organization to disband before voting to sever ties with the Baptist-affiliated school, may have been a bit misleading. Inside Higher Ed reports that it was actually the university itself that shut the group down, and that multiple conflicts led to the GBC executive committee's move towards campus abandonment.

So the plot to ensure that gay stigmatization continues into the next generation thickens.

Shedding some light on Mercer's opinion of its queer pupils, Rev. Jerry Mahan, who is a Mercer trustee, a pastor of Moultrie, Georgia's First Baptist Church, and, according to InsideHigherEd, "someone designated by the college to speak about the current dispute," tells the online news source, “We are a Baptist university and I believe that life style is contrary to the will of God,” adding, “I believe that sexual relations are reserved for marriage, so single heterosexuals should live a celibate life and homosexuals should live celibate lives.” He then goes on to say that he would support a gay student group if its sole purpose would be to help gay students be celibate.

Ah yes, a homo___ual group -- a fantastic idea. Because telling gay students that their sex drives are faulty and their right to love is wrong, is totally the key to an accepting, loving society.

Unnerving.

So who is to blame for the LGBT group's untimely demise? Probably not one person or even one group of people, but rather an arseload of folks who feel that Leviticus is applicable when it pertains to their interpretation of the whole "lie with mankind as with womankind" thing, yet invalid when it comes to the whole eating shellfish part. After all, it takes a village to demonize an intelligent, creative, loving sect of the population.

Baptists, Gays and Trustees [InsideHigherEd.edu]

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