Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Surprised by this story... I'm all for LGBTQ rights, but I never expected Pepperdine to be involved in it... http://college.usatoday.com/2015/12/22/ ... epperdine/

I'm not terribly surprised. Pepperdine is the most liberal of to schools more-or-less associated with the CoC -- in the South where I grew up, the common opinion I heard was the Pepperdine used to be a Christian college, but here in SoCal, it's popular among the churches still.

And being in SoCal, they probably can't easily get away with banning same-sex relationships altogether, or at least they haven't chosen to, or the statement and the actions would have been different. So the response to the harassment is pretty much what it would be at a non-religious school -- a lawsuit.

I'm not surprised, but they should have shown better judgment. It shouldn't have come to this.

Even forty years ago, Pepperdine was 'suspect' (among southern coc congregations) as a coc college - WAY too liberal! I do hear it has a truly beautiful campus, though.

And there you are - Pepperdine is 'committed to a diverse' etc - can't be a sound coc college with that kind of attitude.

agricola wrote:Even forty years ago, Pepperdine was 'suspect' (among southern coc congregations) as a coc college - WAY too liberal! I do hear it has a truly beautiful campus, though.

And there you are - Pepperdine is 'committed to a diverse' etc - can't be a sound coc college with that kind of attitude.

It wasn't just southern congregations.

I grew up in Ohio in the 1960s and '70s and the quickest way to get labeled as being on the fast track to hell (or get your parents off your butt about choosing a cOc college) was to announce that you intended on applying to Pepperdine. The heathenistic party school of Ohio University and even UC Berkley were considered "safer" bets for your soul than going to Pepperdine.

If the court rules against Pepperdine, it will be interesting to see how it impacts other C of C colleges.

.

faithfyl wrote:If the court rules against Pepperdine, it will be interesting to see how it impacts other C of C colleges.

I wonder if other coc colleges will follow suit to avoid any problems...