Solicited Blog

Hal, The Floridian Baptist Ex-Roomie (it's about time you got your own official blog nickname as do all my frequent readers who make comments), asked me to comment on the recent dilemma at Baylor University. Apparently, the editors of the school newspaper wrote an editorial defending the legality of homosexual marriage...which caused all sorts of press releases by leaders, generally denouncing such inflammatory thinking and printing. And, yes, Southern Baptists are different here in Texas...they actually have a conservative group and a more moderately conservative group. Texas is a really big state. Anyway...

The real temptation is to respond in a Ferris Bueller-type manner: "I'm not Baptist. I don't ever plan on being Baptist. So, what do I care what their journalism students or leadership thinks about homosexual relationships?"

Besides, I think they've got bigger fish to fry at Baylor. I mean, a basketball player allegedly murdering another basketball player. A coach believed to be in flagrant violation of NCAA rules (and even a lawsuit by a former player because the coach didn't deliver on his promises of illegal benefits). An ambitious fundraising campaign called "Baylor 2012" that looks difficult to attain, much less implement.

I can't imagine, comparatively speaking, that the poorly thought through opinion of 20-year-olds ranks high on the list of problems.

It's gone to hell in a handbasket down there ever since they allowed dancing on campus about 5 years ago.

:)