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BEG GAY AT BETHEL
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.
BEG GAY AT BETHEL: REVISED
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.