Tag Archives: bigotry

Baptist University Disinvites Youth From Church Not Seen as Sufficiently Anti-Gay

Inside Higher Ed: Baptist University Disinvites Youth From Church Not Seen as Sufficiently Anti-Gay

The University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist university in Kentucky, has told a youth group from the Broadway Baptist Church, in Fort Worth, Texas, that it has revoked an invitation for the students to stay at the university while working to help the disadvantaged in Appalachia. The Associated Baptist Press reported that the move followed criticism of the church for not being sufficiently anti-gay, as evidenced by its admission that it has a few gay members and that they have served on search committees. The university declined to talk to the wire service about its decision. In 2006, the university expelled a student for being gay.

One Man’s War on the Taliban

The Chronicle: One Man’s War on the Taliban

A retired Canadian judge announced last month that he was “retaliating” against the Taliban by seeking to prevent students of “Islamic background” from receiving scholarships endowed in his name.

Paul I.B. Staniszewski told the television network CTV that he had asked the University of Windsor and York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School to make such students ineligible for his scholarships.