The University of Edinburgh has officially banned the PURE course that was to be run on campus by the Christian Union (without talking to or telling the CU, but that is beside the point).University Press Release:
“The university has a clear commitment to ensuring that our students and staff are treated and treat each other with dignity and respect. It also attaches considerable importance to the values of free speech and open debate."
“In this case, the university has looked into the matter, in parallel with an enquiry by the Students Association (EUSA), and has decided that the course is contradictory to our Equality and Diversity values. It was decided that it is not appropriate for this course to run on university or EUSA premises.”
LM 20/10/06
Christians cannot say that homosexual activity is wrong, but anyone is allowed to say that Christians are wrong, bigoted, intolerant, neanderthal, stupid, backwards, dangerous; the list goes on. It is fascinating, though not necessarily surprising, to live in a society where it is wrong for Christians to have free speech, yet to be spoken and written against maliciously with no one stopping to consider the utterly hypocritical nature of 'you must tolerate (meaning accepting, embracing, and not disagreeing with) everyone except Christians.'
If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. - Matt 10.25.
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1 comment:
Absolutely, it's shocking that the University has decided to ban Pure. However, some of us in the Law Faculty have been looking into it and one 2nd year student has discovered that there is actually a piece of legislation that means the University can't ban any speaker or activity from exercising the right of free speech. This has been passed on to the relevant people but it's great that we might have some legal defence. Besides that, Pure is more offensive to most of the University population that believes that heterosexual pre-marital sex is okay. The Bible says fornication is sin just as homosexuality is sin. I don't hear the rest of them going around (and they're by far the overwhelming majority of students compared with the BLOG's) acting offended by the Pure course. Satan's hard at work trying to prevent people living their lives the way God intended.
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