Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Howe and why at Belmont University

As Belmont University seemingly beats a hasty retreat in the wake of parting ways with soccer coach Lisa Howe, ostensibly because Howe violated the university's morality policies (here), I thought this quote from Congressman Mike Pence (from a recent George Will op/ed) was pertinent:
You would not be able to print enough money in a thousand years to pay for the government you would need if the traditional family continues to collapse.
According to The City Paper, this is a "scandal." I don't think so. Belmont needs to stand by their policy, without regard to the cat calls from our culture's libertine left or squishy "center-right." There's no question that the Bible prohibits homosexual activity. Belmont may offend their biggest individual financial supporter. They may be swimming upstream against political correctness. They may lose a great soccer coach. But they needn't accept the premise that this or any other policies rooted in Judeo-Christian ethics are arbitrary or based in bigotry.

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