Last November, Fresno Pacific University denied a request from students to start an LGBTQ+ Pride club at the private, Christian college, citing “inconsistency” with its policies and alignment with the Mennonite faith. That didn’t deter students from starting the club and partnering with local faith organizations to host monthly meetings off-campus. It didn’t deter them from returning to the campus on Thursday to protest what they say is “the administration’s continuous neglect of LGBTQ+ students.”
More than two dozen students, alumni, and community and faith leaders marched to the university’s campus green carrying handmade signs and waving pride flags. Chants from the crowd could be heard around the green. “This is what Christianity looks like.”
The demonstration, organized by the Birds for Pride (named after the university’s sunbird mascot), was designed to draw attention to the university’s history with the LGBTQ+ community and happened as representatives from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges were visiting are school. WASC is the accrediting body for California schools. “The LGBTQ+ students of Fresno Pacific University are calling on WASC to open an investigation into Fresno Pacific University’s practices,”
Justin St. George, the Birds for Pride president, said in a statement released before the march. “President Joseph Jones time and time again refused to speak with LGBTQ+ students and even attempted to obstruct the student body and faculty over the last year. President Jones has caused irrevocable damage by leading with his cognitive bias, and not his Christian values. He has endangered the standing of the Central Valley’s only accredited Christian institution and has exposed the school to potential financial and legal liabilities.”
When asked about the demonstration on Thursday, the university referred to a statement issued by the school’s board and president following the denial of the LGBTQ+ Pride club. In it, the board said it after “careful consideration,” to the club, but found establishing the club “was not consistent with the Confession of Faith of the university,” or the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
The above comes from a March 16 story in the Fresno Bee.
God bless our Mennonite brothers and sisters. They’re well known for their service to the elderly, their peace-making efforts and their relief efforts, including in Ukraine today. As they say, “In situations of conflict or disaster, MCC is there – providing funds for emergency food and shelter as well as supplies such as MCC relief kits.” Like Catholic charities, they serve all, based on need, not creed. Yet, some now demand that they abandon their Christian faith because they follow the teachings of Christ instead of acquiescing to the sexual revolution. No one is forced to be a student or faculty or staff member at Fresno Pacific University. Our Constitution guarantees religious liberty and the right to freely associate. Others are free to start a ‘Birds for Pride University,” if they’d like to do so.
LGBT is contrary to Christianity. What’s so hard about realizing that?
For God so loved the world that he gave* his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
John 3:16
So does everyone go to heaven then?
Dear blow hard: that may be your opinion but that is not *at all* what the Church teaches via the Catechism. Check it out, maybe you might learn something?
what’s so hard is correct. The LGBT ideology is contrary to Christianity. Why do you react so defensively and rudely? The Catechism teaches that the only moral sex is that between a married man and woman that is open to transmitting life. LGBT teaches against that and says any two people can have sex: man man, woman woman and so forth.
The Church and her catechism teach nothing about LGBT ideology. I’m not even sure what LGBT ideology IS. and it does not teach that LGBT is contrary to Christianity. You too could look it up. Pointing out the facts is only rude if you consider the truth to be rude. And people who are attacked have a right to defend themselves. So if you find defending oneself when attacked to be defensive, then so be it.
The catechism is from the 1990s, before gender ideology became a thing or a term.
In our time, Pope Francis has called gender ideology demonic and evil and dangerous. Do you accept his teaching?
And there’s this document from the Holy See, “Male and Female He Created Them”, in which the Church teaches against gender ideology. Do you accept this teaching as a loyal Catholic?
http://www.educatio.va/content/dam/cec/Documenti/19_0997_INGLESE.pdf
More sophistry and nonsense. The Church has always held non hetero sex as sinful. More words from you will never change those facts.
YFC, the time is coming when you will have to choose between the LGBT syndicate and Christ and His Church. LGBT ideology is contrary to the natural ie contrary to Christ as much you cannot stand that fact, that’s what it is. What your side wants is the complete destruction of anyone who opposes their perversion. We live in a satanic age where men can claim to be women, boys dressed in drag and dancing in gay bars and it’s cheered.
bohemond, I got news for you: there is no such thing as LGBT ideology and the LGBT syndicate. You regularly use these pages to demonstrate your hatred for LGBT people, and that hatred is absolutely contrary to the Gospel and the catechism.
Accept, thank you for the link. I’ve never seen the document. I will read it when it’s not time for bed. A quick search of the PDF, however, demonstrates it does not use the terms “gender ideology”or “LGBT ideology”. Do you believe in the Control-F feature on your computer?
YFC, I’m guilty as charged. I hate, I proudly hate, I hate how Church the has been corrupted. I hate how the law now accepts a perversion that cries to heaven for vengeance, I hate how we load children up with hormones and mutilate their bodies because they think they are the opposite sex in which God made them. I hate how the month June, a month dedicated the Sacred Heart of Jesus, has been corrupted by “Pride” for perverts. I will continue to attack LGBT filth to let all of you know that you are not accepted.
Peace be with you bohemond
YFC there will be no peace when lies are considered truth and the Divine Truth is considered hate
Not every LGBTQ person gets laid. Which I think is what your problem is with it. Since you said your name was “only moral sex.”
There is also immoral sex in heterosexual marriages.
I am not saying this to be argumentative.
You just expressed yourself so poorly that you opened yourself up to all these arguments.
What you said may have expressed your thoughts but it did not express Christian morality and faith very well.
you should talk
gay sex is not “getting laid”. They merely mimic sexual intercourse. They mock true sexual relations by the degrading things they do.
I do not know why this is getting attention.
I saw an interview with a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church and the reason they do their protests is to get attention.
I remember when they were protesting the funeral of a rock star and people were nervous that there would be confrontations but as soon as the cameras left, they left.
Think about what you really want to support.
By publishing this story, you are supporting it.
By publishing a story about a protest over tax hikes means I support tax increases?
How about this story raises visibility to an important issue we might just might have concern.
No it means you support the tax protest.
Just like this article supports LGBTQ protests.
It is from the Sacramento Bee so it is “objective.”
Maybe by commenting on it you’re supporting it?
So I complain about the article giving them attention and I support it?
Clear as mud.
You’re drawing attention to it.
My bad
Americans, and Catholics in general, long ago surrendered Freedom of Association.
Pigs coming home to root, I’d say. Enjoy.
The saying you’re looking for is the chickens are coming home to roost.
The one about pigs is either lipstick on a pig or when pigs fly.
Intentional. More apt than chickens/roost.
Pigs rooting. Lol.
These immature LGBTQ protestors have very bad manners. All citizens in our great country must respect religious freedom. All schools and colleges run by religious denominations have the right to run their institutions according to their religious beliefs. Everyone should respect them. I certainly would not enroll a child in a Jewish or Muslim school– and then make a big fuss, because they do not accept Christ, or do not believe in eating pork.
Maybe you haven’t realized yet that the rainbow brigade are totalitarians just like Nazis and Communists were. If you oppose them, they will get rid of you. Or try to. They aren’t immature as much as they are totalitarian and evil.
the aggrieved should transfer to an Ivy League school
or a Cali public college or LMU or USD or USF
it’s better than pigs
coming home to rut