Baylor Gay Purge Extends To Grads

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/11/110805baylor.htm

Baylor University has told a graduate, who served for five years on the advisory board for its business school, that his no longer welcome after learning that he is gay.

Tim Smith, a 1983 graduate, was one of 36 members of the Hankamer School of Business advisory panel.

In an interview with the Baylor Lariat, Smith says that since graduating from the Baptist school he has personally donated more than $65,000 to Baylor and raised and additional $60,000 to establish an academic scholarship.

this sucks--if I gave my alma mater $65K and then they turned around and pulled this crap, I'd be raising holy hell

[msongs]

1. kkk members and nazis are welcome by the jesus crowd

long as they are not gay of course.

Msongs
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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Baylor can kiss a lot of money goodbye, I'd bet

Gays won't want to donate, and those who are sympathetic to the glbt cause won't either. Hope Mr. Smith decides to donate to liberal causes instead.

[dbackjon]

3. He should ask for his money back

[sasquatch]

4. I wonder if the bugman is still welcome all though he was drunk and -

dropped out.

[kweerwolf]

5. A bugman is always welcome ...

however, a "buggerman" is not.

[eyesroll]

6. I've been getting recruited heavily by Baylor Law.

Like, scarily heavily...a DVD, a bunch of e-mails, a fee waiver. Hints of scholarship potential (but no promises).

Tell me again why I'd want to go there?

(I am rejecting any school out of hand that will tell me who I am allowed to love, who I am allowed to date, and what I am allowed to do with those I love and/or date.)

[kweerwolf]

8. Good for you, eyesroll!

I hope more people stand up for their convictions as you do. :applause:

[eyesroll]

13. Hell, it's not even "standing up for convictions."

It's self-preservation. It's not wanting to get kicked out for behaving as most adults do. Cripes, I'm 30 years old -- I don't need my school telling me I can't have opposite-sex visitors unless the door's open, and only before 10 pm. And, yeah, I don't want my friends in same-sex relationships to get kicked out because someone sees them holding hands off-campus.

It's weird -- the local law school is a Jesuit institution. And they have a very strong anti-discrimination policy that includes LGBT students, as well as a student organization supporting same. Their "parents and partners" support group page refers specifically to "life partners" and "significant others," not just "spouses." I'll take it.

[Stepup2]

16. Tell me about it...

I have had a few offers from grad programs that I would LOVE to attend, but have thought twice due to this. One program had recently purged the few semi-open faculty it had, and when I e-mailed the remaining person questions about the climate in the department al I heard was.....crickets.....crickets... :scared:

[davidinalameda]

10. stay in Wisconsin

have you ever been in Texas in the summer?

[eyesroll]

11. Sadly, yes. Tyler. It was hot and there was nothing to do.

(Except there was a baby shower. Ugh.)

I'm staying put, in any case.

[Gothmog]

12. I graduated from Baylor Law

That was back in 1982. It is a good law school and is separate from the university. We had the only cigarette machine on campus and we had booze at all official parties.

The new law school building is tremendous. Four of the five attorneys who did the tobacco case were from Baylor and they donated the money for a state of the art law school that really impressed me.

If you want to litigate, it is a great program. I am a transactional attorney but the litigation skills that I learned have helped me in my practice.

Good luck.

[xchrom]

15. i don't know what to say -- that is so cool.

[damntexdem]

7. Look on the bright side: at least they didn't cancel his degree.

And the holy hell that needs raising is contacting other Baylor donors who are known to be or may be gay, and making sure they know what's up: that Baylor does not correctly answer the $64,000 question.

[damntexdem]

9. dupe

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[kevinbgoode]

14. This is one reason why I will NEVER give my

alma maters anything - even though they are all state schools. I don't trust the people in the Administration and these fundies operate under stealth.

As for Baylor, maybe we need to think about searching for private research grants they receive from companies, particularly companies with non-discrimination policies. It wouldn't hurt to start pointing out that a company is giving fundies money against their own support policies. I'm sure Baylor will understand why a private company might pull consideration for grants. . .after all, it's the same thing they are pulling.