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While the universy has chosen to engage wh other social issu, hostg a #BlackLivMatter panel discsn and tablishg a genr studi mor, nversatn about homosexualy and homophobia has been parably quieter at the stutnal level.

In s Covenant for Life Together, Bethel intifi homosexual behavr — along wh adultery, idolatry and dishonty, among others — as a character qualy nsistent wh the Christian liftyle. “I don’t thk that every person who wants to live their life as a gay person needs to have the affirmatn of the entire church if they feel that somehow this is the life they are lled to live, ” Bunker said.

His rponse highlights a ep-seated fear among faculty members to speak publicly about homosexualy — a fear that DeYoung, a former renciliatn studi profsor, said still exists on Bethel’s mp.

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DeYoung ced the termatn of soclogy profsor Ken Gowdy 1991 as one of the reasons faculty and staff are reluctant, nearly 25 years later, to engage nversatn about homosexualy. “Given that faculty sign the Covenant, which clus a statement about the universy’s perspective on homosexual behavr, we would not expect a faculty member to advote for a posn that nflicts wh the Covenant, ” Harls said.

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