Log Cabin Demands Baylor Re-instate Dismissed Alumni
After Baylor University’s Business School dismissed an alumnus simply for being gay, Log Cabin is calling for his reinstatement:
“Baylor University’s Business School is ignoring the policy of the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies who protect gay and lesbian workers,” said Patrick Guerriero, President of Log Cabin Republicans. “The business school’s decision to dismiss an alumnus from the school’s advisory board because he’s gay shows this institution is intolerant and out of touch with 21st century corporate America.”
Tim Smith, a Log Cabin member and alumnus of Baylor University, has served for five years on the advisory board at Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business. Smith, who is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has contributed more than $65,000 to Baylor and raised more than $60,000 to establish an academic scholarship endowment at Baylor.
In a statement, Dr. Terry Maness, dean of Baylor’s business school, said he kicked Smith off the advisory board because of his “alternative lifestyle.” The statement went on to say, “We must be sensitive to the position of our affiliated denomination, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which has, on previous occasions, stated that a homosexual lifestyle is incompatible with most Baptist interpretations of Scripture.”
As an institution which tells young men that they aren’t even allowed to dance with women, is there any surprise that some might prefer their own sex after graduation?!?