Evangelical Belmont university approves gay student group
Image via Wikipedia Provost Thomas Burns of Belmont University in Nashville has announced in a statement that the evangelical Christian school has given official approval to its first homosexual student organization. Burns said that the decision to recognize the homosexualist group, which had twice before applied for, and been denied, club status, reflected an “ongoing campus dialogue about Christian faith and sexuality.” “This outcome represents many months of conversation, collaboration and cooperation between Belmont students, faculty and staff,” the statement read. In December 2010, Belmont was embroiled in controversy when the school dismissed women’s soccer coach Lisa Howe, after she told her team that she and her lesbian partner were expecting a baby. Belmont’s policy change follows a decision in January to add “sexual orientation” to the historically Baptist school’s anti-discrimination policy. The school, which had been affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention ,