Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 09, 2025


Ep 1215 ｜ Baylor University’s New LGBTQ Program Betrays Baptist Roots


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Baylor University has received a large grant from a progressive foundation that is funding research at the university that will be used to convince Christian congregations to be affirming of LGBTQ+. We ve got so much on this story today as we break down the very sad progressive shift of a once great Baptist institution.

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00:00:00.000 The Baptist Baylor University, a huge college in Texas, has just announced that it received
00:00:06.140 a large grant from a progressive foundation that is funding research at the university
00:00:12.180 that will be used to convince Christian congregations to be affirming of LGBTQ+.
00:00:20.100 We've got so much on this story today as we break down the very sad progressive shift
00:00:25.560 of a once great Baptist institution, Baylor University.
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00:00:47.260 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.
00:00:49.600 Happy Wednesday.
00:00:50.660 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.
00:00:53.140 If you want a breakdown of the tragic floods and the response and some of the theories
00:00:59.220 surrounding the floods in Texas, go back, listen to, or watch Monday's episode.
00:01:04.700 We covered that thoroughly then.
00:01:06.640 Unfortunately, the death toll there keeps rising.
00:01:09.620 So please keep praying.
00:01:10.880 Keep giving.
00:01:12.060 Keep doing whatever you can to support the communities there, not just now, but even months from now.
00:01:18.460 I, of course, am continuing to do that as someone who is from Texas.
00:01:23.720 This is especially near and dear to my heart.
00:01:26.800 So we are continuing to think about them and intercede for them and pray for everyone who has been affected
00:01:33.040 and will continue to be affected.
00:01:34.940 Today, we are talking about another Texas story, this time about a Baptist university in Waco, Texas
00:01:41.860 called Baylor University.
00:01:43.460 A lot of you have probably heard of Baylor.
00:01:46.580 It is a huge school, very popular school, especially for Christian students in the state of Texas
00:01:53.140 and really nationally.
00:01:54.620 I graduated from a private Christian school and I think it was like, I only graduated with 110 people
00:02:02.920 maybe in my graduating class.
00:02:04.760 And I'm pretty sure it was 25 people from my class went to Baylor.
00:02:11.140 Another 25 went to A&M.
00:02:14.160 These are super popular universities in the state of Texas, a very big community in Dallas and elsewhere
00:02:22.080 of Baylor alum.
00:02:23.860 This is a generational thing, especially the A&M people out there.
00:02:28.400 I already know what you're yelling because I'm saying A&M.
00:02:31.160 I know what you're yelling as you're walking and as you are driving in your car, but I cannot hear you.
00:02:37.760 Baylor has been such a big part of Texas culture and really of Baptist life in a lot of ways.
00:02:45.880 However, it is taking a leftward turn.
00:02:49.040 And as we will see, it has been taking this leftward turn, going down this leftward drift for a long time.
00:02:55.260 But now recent news has made a lot of people who have been defending Baylor and its Christian
00:03:02.720 ethics stop in their tracks and say, okay, this is just a bridge too far.
00:03:07.420 So this was published by the Christian Post last week.
00:03:12.120 A private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, that's Baylor, announced on June 30th
00:03:18.300 that it had received $643,401 in grant money from the Eula May and John Baugh Foundation.
00:03:26.600 And the goal of this more than half a million dollar grant is to foster LGBTQ, quote unquote,
00:03:35.100 inclusion and belonging in the church.
00:03:38.760 This publicly highlighted, the school publicly highlighted this funding through a press release
00:03:45.660 from its Diana R. Garland School of Social Work.
00:03:49.760 The grant will go toward research that will focus on understanding and addressing, quote,
00:03:54.580 the disenfranchisement and exclusion of LGBTQIA plus individuals and women, okay, within congregations
00:04:06.940 to nurture institutional courage and foster change.
00:04:10.780 So everyone except for straight men, this research is for you.
00:04:16.380 So Baylor put out a press release about this.
00:04:19.020 That in and of itself is a story.
00:04:21.560 They are proud of this.
00:04:22.800 They are excited about this.
00:04:24.700 They are thankful for this grant money.
00:04:26.760 This is not something that they are trying to slip under the rug.
00:04:29.960 They're not trying to hide it.
00:04:31.860 I don't know if they put out a press release for every single grant that they get, but they
00:04:35.800 were so enthusiastic about this particular grant that they decided to publicize it.
00:04:41.000 So the specific project that this grant is funding is called Courage from the Margins,
00:04:46.220 Inclusion and Belonging Practices for LGBTQIA+.
00:04:49.900 Okay, that plus, what does that even mean?
00:04:53.000 And women in congregations will use interviews, focus groups, and surveys with two groups of
00:04:57.520 25 young adults aged 18 to 24 recruited from across the country to gather information about
00:05:03.100 their experiences in church settings.
00:05:06.280 Findings from the research will be used to develop, quote, trauma-informed training resources
00:05:10.460 for churches with the aim of encouraging more inclusive practices and environments for
00:05:15.720 LGBTQIA+, individuals and women.
00:05:19.060 So this is toxic empathy with feeds.
00:05:23.100 Like this is what it looks like to actually manifest toxic empathy.
00:05:27.500 So what this grant is going to fund is research that will be used to then guilt churches into
00:05:36.360 not only including, but affirming those who identify as homosexual or as the opposite sex.
00:05:44.260 They are going to say, look, these individuals through our research, we found that they are enduring
00:05:50.080 trauma.
00:05:50.920 They are enduring betrayal.
00:05:53.180 They have walked away from the church.
00:05:55.320 They have abandoned their faith because these churches called who they are sin, and they
00:06:01.620 shamed them, and they made them feel like they had to live in the shadows.
00:06:06.340 And that's not what Jesus wanted for us.
00:06:09.480 That's not evangelism.
00:06:11.180 And they'll probably say, you know, if we really want to share the gospel with these people,
00:06:15.360 if we really want these people to be walking with Christ, then we need to affirm every part
00:06:20.460 of them.
00:06:20.960 This research will be weaponized.
00:06:23.040 This research will be used as a tool of emotional manipulation, a mallet of manipulation to hit
00:06:28.680 you, believing person over the head, biblical Christian person, into accepting that which 0.62
00:06:37.680 God calls sin.
00:06:39.380 That is what this research will be used for.
00:06:42.480 That is its express purpose, even if they are not stating this in the press release.
00:06:47.920 The press release uses a bunch of progressive hogwash and euphemisms, which tells me that
00:06:54.320 Baylor truly has been captured.
00:06:56.780 Many LGBTQIA plus individuals and women experience what researchers call institutional betrayal within
00:07:03.200 their faith community.
00:07:04.560 Situations where the institutions they depend on for spiritual support fail to protect them
00:07:09.600 and even actively harm them.
00:07:11.940 This might involve exclusion from church activities, family estrangement, and painful conflicts that
00:07:16.780 leave lasting emotional wounds.
00:07:19.220 So I think it's important.
00:07:20.280 You guys know I love to analyze press releases and public statements that are made after controversies
00:07:27.300 or in the midst of scandal because every single word is chosen with intentionality.
00:07:34.100 This has been combed over several times by so many different teams of people.
00:07:38.740 And so when I'm reading these sentences, I want to know, but what do they mean by that?
00:07:43.520 So first, this term institutional betrayal, I've heard it before.
00:07:47.500 And so I wanted to know, where does this come from?
00:07:50.600 Does it mean what it sounds like it means that the institution you're a part of turns its back
00:07:55.780 on you?
00:07:56.660 I mean, I think of the word betrayal.
00:07:58.440 That's like you make a promise to someone or you say that you're going to do something
00:08:02.620 and then you don't do it.
00:08:05.260 You don't follow through on it.
00:08:06.560 And you say that you accept someone, that you love someone, and then you go back on your
00:08:12.300 commitment to them.
00:08:13.100 That is what betrayal means.
00:08:14.720 So I wanted to dig into this a little bit more.
00:08:17.300 This term was coined by a University of Oregon professor named Jennifer Freyde.
00:08:22.620 And she actually focuses on the psychology of sexual abuse trauma survivors.
00:08:30.600 So that is apparently where this term originated.
00:08:34.280 And I think it is very telling that you've got organizations like this, Baylor, who is
00:08:40.260 accepting this progressive money for this progressive cause, that it is using this term institutional
00:08:45.800 betrayal to describe the experiences of people who have probably simply been told that their
00:08:52.640 homosexual lifestyle or their identification as the opposite sex is not in alignment with God's 0.99
00:08:58.520 word.
00:08:58.700 Now, that is not betrayal.
00:09:01.480 That is actually a Christian organization or institution staying true to its mission statement,
00:09:08.420 staying true to the God that it is actually faithful to.
00:09:12.340 To betray someone, you actually have to have made a commitment to them and then gone back
00:09:17.420 on that.
00:09:18.400 But if you said, this is who I am, this is what I'm going to do, this is what I'm going
00:09:22.760 to stay true to, and that person decides that, well, those things don't actually align with
00:09:28.220 what I believe, and they walk away or they're offended by your values, that is not betrayal.
00:09:33.780 So already in this language, you see that the responsibility is being put on the church.
00:09:39.180 The shame is being put on the church saying you are betraying these people by saying that
00:09:45.160 LGBTQIA plus is sin. 1.00
00:09:47.720 So we know exactly where this is going and exactly why this research is being funded at
00:09:54.160 a place like Baylor and a conservative state like Texas and a conservative town like Waco
00:10:00.000 for a conservative denomination like Baptists.
00:10:04.360 We know exactly what this is trying to do.
00:10:06.920 This is not really institutional betrayal that Baptists or Christians are guilty of.
00:10:12.400 This is actually institutional capture of a previously Christian solid place like Baylor
00:10:19.340 University by bad actors, by progressives who are using the emotional manipulation of toxic
00:10:25.500 empathy to make you feel bad for abiding by scripture.
00:10:29.820 That's what's really going on here.
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00:12:14.360 This new LGBTQ inclusion grant is designated for Baylor Center for Church and Community Impact,
00:12:23.200 also known as C3I.
00:12:25.480 According to the press release, Dr. Gaynor Yancey has been the director of C3I.
00:12:31.220 That is part of the university's Diana R. Garland School of Social Work.
00:12:35.860 Since 2016, she has authored many of the academic articles recommended by this center dealing
00:12:43.280 with the inclusion of the LGBTQ, quote, community and churches.
00:12:49.180 Yancey said that the grant will help fill out, quote,
00:12:52.900 the bigger picture of congregations practices that result in an environment of belonging
00:12:58.240 and will focus on the lived experiences of emerging adults.
00:13:03.600 Again, I mean, this progressive euphemistic language is just so telling.
00:13:08.820 It will focus on the lived experiences.
00:13:12.120 It will not focus on the objective word of God.
00:13:17.060 It will not focus on objective truth, but will focus on the subjective feelings and interpretation
00:13:24.900 of events by these individuals who believe that they are marginalized because of the choices
00:13:32.100 they are making and their stated identities.
00:13:35.260 Way back in 2020, when we were trying our best to interpret all of this nonsense and define
00:13:41.180 our terms, we talked about this idea of standpoint epistemology, which is really a far left Marxist
00:13:48.600 concept of declaring a truth because it is your perspective, not just my truth and not just,
00:13:59.100 oh, this is my perception of things, but truly the search of knowledge from your lived experience.
00:14:07.040 And within critical race theory and social justice ideology, standpoint epistemology really trumps
00:14:15.480 objective epistemology, like the search of knowledge through observation and through the scientific
00:14:21.720 method or whatever methods you want to talk about, which is really supposed to be like an even playing
00:14:26.680 field, no matter who you are and what your background is.
00:14:29.460 And instead, they would elevate the validity or the trustworthiness of the lived experiences
00:14:36.560 of those who are considered marginalized or who are considered oppressed.
00:14:42.100 So the immigrant, the black or brown person, basically everyone except for the straight white male. 0.66
00:14:49.140 You've probably heard the term intersectionality.
00:14:52.820 The intersection of identities that you have really determines your level of oppression and
00:14:59.200 therefore determines your level of credibility.
00:15:02.000 The more oppressed you are, according to this left-wing ideology, the more credibility you
00:15:07.800 have, the more authority you have.
00:15:09.880 That is why you see these organizations go into these churches and they are able to convince
00:15:18.620 pastors and congregants that they need to be LGBTQ affirming because of their sad lived experiences. 0.98
00:15:25.740 And again, they're able to use emotion to get people to compromise scripture.
00:15:29.740 That is certainly what is going on here.
00:15:32.420 And you see when this professor says congregations are supposed to be places of care.
00:15:40.880 She says that God should soften our hearts towards those who live life on the margins and the shadows, 0.97
00:15:47.380 rarely experiencing a sense of belonging.
00:15:50.620 And so she is playing upon your desire to be a good person, your good desire to be an includer.
00:15:56.720 Or you don't want anyone to feel left out or like they have to lurk in the shadows.
00:16:01.460 You know that everyone's inmost desire is to be known and to be loved.
00:16:06.260 And so they're using this language to play upon the good instincts as a Christian that you
00:16:12.620 already have to convince you that the only way to truly love them is to affirm their sin.
00:16:19.020 And congregations, Dr. John Singletary, the dean of this social work school says, have the
00:16:26.100 potential to be spaces of healing and belonging.
00:16:30.260 Yet too often they become sources of exclusion and harm.
00:16:33.820 So if you say what the Bible says about homosexuality, you are harming people.
00:16:37.540 You are excluding people.
00:16:39.200 This grant equips us to listen deeply, to study carefully.
00:16:43.240 Now remember, they're only studying the lived experiences of like 25 people and partner
00:16:48.040 faithfully with churches seeking to become more just and welcoming community.
00:16:54.840 So you are just, you are welcoming, you are healing, you are belonging.
00:16:59.640 If you ignore the parts of the Bible that prohibit homosexuality, that affirm the biblical 0.99
00:17:04.960 definition of marriage, the reality of the gender binary, and you are harmful and you are anti-healing. 0.85
00:17:14.540 So I don't know, you're inflicting sickness and pain upon people.
00:17:17.500 You are unjust if you abide by those parts of scripture.
00:17:22.620 And so all of these euphemisms, all of this language, it is very intentional to communicate
00:17:28.420 a very progressive and manipulative message.
00:17:32.420 Now let's talk a little bit more about this foundation.
00:17:36.820 Why would a foundation give an over $600,000 grant to Baylor University to ensure that there
00:17:44.040 is research supporting the need for affirmation and inclusion of unrepentant LGBTQ people within
00:17:51.740 the church?
00:17:52.300 So we got to go back a little bit to 1994.
00:17:55.160 That's when this foundation was started by Yula May and John Baugh.
00:17:59.040 They are the founders of the frozen food company, Cisco.
00:18:03.460 You have probably seen that brand before.
00:18:06.420 Maybe in an 18-wheeler passing you by on the highway, a lot of money.
00:18:11.400 The couple was known for supporting Baptist efforts, including those of the Baptist General
00:18:15.860 Convention of Texas, Baylor Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a lot of Baptist progressive
00:18:23.980 organizations.
00:18:24.960 They both died in 2007, and then their daughter, Babs Baugh, took over as president, and she
00:18:31.980 led the foundation until she died in 2020.
00:18:35.640 Good Faith Media, which is a progressive Christian, I know that's an oxymoron, but they are professing 0.99
00:18:41.840 Christians as an organization, and they are also politically progressive, theologically
00:18:45.480 progressive, but they're a media entity.
00:18:47.900 They wrote a tribute to Babs Baugh that tells us about the organization, the direction that it
00:18:52.460 continued to go in under her leadership, and they said that she leaves a lasting legacy
00:18:58.040 of tireless efforts to continue the work her parents began of supporting the moderate to
00:19:02.280 progressive Baptist movement.
00:19:05.340 And they said that she called Baptists beyond the narrowness of religious fundamentalism.
00:19:10.440 Again, those euphemisms, those code words are so important.
00:19:13.280 What does fundamentalism mean?
00:19:15.460 It probably just means someone who takes the Bible seriously, especially when it comes to those 1.00
00:19:19.960 creation order issues, and they said that the narrowness of religious fundamentalism, she tried
00:19:25.580 to get people to abandon and move into a larger, more generous, big-tent mindset and ministry.
00:19:34.100 It is also worth noting that Good Faith Media has received funding from the Baugh Foundation,
00:19:40.180 of course.
00:19:41.440 They offer inclusive Christian content.
00:19:44.580 One of their initiatives is the Faithful Pride Initiative, which, of course, is not possible.
00:19:50.320 Think about that.
00:19:51.200 Faithful Pride, the juxtaposition of those words.
00:19:54.600 I mean, it's just heretical nonsense, which seeks to highlight stories of LGBTQ+, people of 0.92
00:20:01.060 faith doing inspiring work around the country and the world.
00:20:05.820 And so these institutions, foundations like this, which are very well-funded, seek to infiltrate
00:20:11.220 the church with progressive and secular dogma that they usually cloak in some kind of Christian-sounding
00:20:19.140 language.
00:20:21.260 And of course, Baylor honored her when she died in June of 2020, since the Baugh Foundation had
00:20:27.980 actually been giving money to Baylor for a long time, long before this press release was released
00:20:34.120 about this new grant.
00:20:36.120 Their Funding Priorities page says,
00:20:38.340 We warmly welcome applications from progressive organizations working in faith-related spaces.
00:20:43.920 We prioritize applications from organizations that are openly welcoming and affirming.
00:20:48.100 We know what that means in organizations that do not discriminate.
00:20:52.160 By the way, everyone discriminates.
00:20:55.220 You discriminate against people when you hire for any job.
00:20:59.820 There are different forms of discrimination, and we can debate which forms of discrimination
00:21:03.580 are good or bad, but picking one resume over another is also discrimination.
00:21:09.040 It just depends, again, on what kind of discrimination you're talking about.
00:21:13.340 And so these are code words that are used to convey a progressive message.
00:21:17.100 We define faith broadly, and most often fund three types of organizations, progressive Baptist
00:21:22.900 organizations and institutions, faith-based nonprofit organizations that share the foundation's
00:21:27.820 ethical sensitivities, nonprofit organizations that guard the separation between church and
00:21:34.280 state.
00:21:35.360 Interesting.
00:21:36.800 Examples of grants toward progressive causes that they have awarded, that the foundation has
00:21:42.400 awarded recently, the Institute for Black Church Studies at Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, a $750,000
00:21:49.220 grant that establishes an institute to educate congregations on racial justice and inclusivity.
00:21:55.780 Again, define our terms, read between the lines.
00:21:58.640 We know what that means.
00:22:00.200 It is a critical race theory ideology curriculum that they want infiltrating these otherwise
00:22:06.120 conservative churches.
00:22:07.260 A $2.7 million grant that was awarded to the Baptist House of Studies at Southern Methodist
00:22:13.280 University, Perkins School of Theology in 2022.
00:22:17.360 Again, Dallas in Texas.
00:22:20.440 I mean, it is somewhat progressive, but it is also largely conservative.
00:22:26.000 They are picking these kinds of institutions, I think, that are conservative states because they
00:22:32.300 want to try to change the political makeup of these red states. 0.99
00:22:37.260 The Perkins School of Theology course list includes classes such as North American Hispanic Theology,
00:22:43.960 African American Liberation Theology, Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Theologies, and Queer 0.99
00:22:51.620 Bible Hermeneutics.
00:22:53.740 And so this grant is accomplishing exactly what the Ball Foundation wants it to accomplish,
00:22:59.420 which is, of course, the disintegrating of solid theology in place of the standpoint epistemology.
00:23:09.920 You've got your Hispanic theology.
00:23:11.400 You've got your womanist theology. 0.95
00:23:13.180 You've got your African American theology.
00:23:16.120 This is intersectionality using some Bible verses to try to justify it.
00:23:21.720 A racial justice initiative at Simmons College of Kentucky, a $2 million grant that supports
00:23:27.340 efforts at Simmons College to address systemic racism through a racial justice initiative.
00:23:33.100 While systemic racism does not exist in the United States in 2025, racial justice is not
00:23:40.320 actually biblical justice because it is partial to one kind of person over another kind of person
00:23:47.060 based on melanin.
00:23:49.000 And God says throughout scripture, Old Testament, New Testament, that he hates partiality.
00:23:54.960 And so this is not Christian in any sense.
00:23:57.700 We know exactly where so-called racial justice goes.
00:24:00.460 It goes into defunding the police and actually harming the very vulnerable communities that racial
00:24:05.520 justicians say that they're trying to help.
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00:25:10.620 In 2018, the Baugh Foundation funded a nationwide study conducted again at Baylor's C3I institution
00:25:24.000 program, exploring how congregations approach decision-making regarding LGBTQ inclusion,
00:25:29.520 which resulted in Baylor's LGBTQ plus discernment guide at Baylor University, a guide to help
00:25:35.080 churches navigate decisions to be more inclusive in their practices and policies specific to
00:25:41.220 the LGBTQ plus person.
00:25:43.040 So Baylor is completely not hiding it.
00:25:45.500 And this is a great example of what the Baugh Foundation wants to accomplish through these
00:25:50.980 grants.
00:25:51.300 They want these institutions like Baylor University to put out statements, to put out guidelines
00:26:00.640 that are affirming of those who live LGBTQ lifestyles.
00:26:06.400 In 2021, the university announced the creation of an endowed physics chair, a permanent position
00:26:10.940 for a physics professor, funded through a donation from the Baugh Estate.
00:26:15.960 Bastion pointed out that Baylor's increasing reliance on the self-proclaimed progressives holding
00:26:21.000 the purse strings.
00:26:22.680 That's exactly what's going on here.
00:26:24.500 I mean, the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
00:26:28.240 When you feel indebted to someone, I mean, the borrower is the slave to the lender, and
00:26:33.320 this is not alone, but the same principle applies when someone is funding your life and they say,
00:26:39.380 well, you have to do this or we're not going to fund you anymore.
00:26:41.980 That's where compromise happens.
00:26:43.540 Unless you serve a higher master, which Baylor is, of course, supposed to as a professing Christian 0.87
00:26:48.660 institution.
00:26:50.080 In 2024, the Baugh Foundation funded the Building Resilient Congregations Research Pilot Project,
00:26:56.440 where that same professor, Yancey, at the Social Work School and her team worked with selected
00:27:01.180 congregations in three distinct areas, accompaniment, trauma care, and LGBTQ discernment.
00:27:06.060 Again, I think it's so telling, the conflation of those who choose to embrace the LGBTQ life
00:27:15.460 and those who have endured actual sexual abuse and trauma.
00:27:20.580 That's not to say that those who are tempted in one direction, either by gender deception
00:27:25.720 and confusion or sexual lust towards the same sex, that those people should be marginalized.
00:27:32.400 Those people should be pushed into the shadows, but that's not what we're talking about here.
00:27:37.680 I do think that the church has a place, should be a place, for compassion and care and love
00:27:42.940 and grace-filled truth for those who are struggling with those sins.
00:27:47.440 But we are talking about those who have accepted these things as their unchangeable stated identity.
00:27:53.960 And if you believe that, that some sins are either not really sins or they cannot be repented of
00:28:01.580 because they are so innate, then you don't believe in the gospel.
00:28:04.880 So that's what I am reading in all of this, that Baylor doesn't actually believe in the gospel.
00:28:09.980 And beyond all of this progressive ideology that it's accepting,
00:28:13.940 that is the most troubling part of all of this.
00:28:16.860 That's what should trouble you.
00:28:18.100 If you are a donor to Baylor, if you are planning to send your kids to Baylor,
00:28:22.320 know that Baylor University is showing you that it does not believe in the gospel,
00:28:27.440 that it believes that it is nicer than God, that it believes that God is too mean,
00:28:31.820 that God's word is too harsh.
00:28:33.280 So it has to apologize for it, has to caveat it, has to ignore some parts of it
00:28:37.800 to affirm that which God calls sin.
00:28:41.000 But what do we always say?
00:28:42.340 If God is love, 1 John 4, 8, then we cannot outlove him.
00:28:45.820 We are not love.
00:28:46.940 God is love.
00:28:48.020 And therefore he gets to define it.
00:28:49.840 And he does define it for us.
00:28:51.380 We read in 1 Corinthians 13, 6, that love, among other things,
00:28:55.260 never rejoices in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
00:28:59.980 God is not only love, but he is also the source of truth.
00:29:03.560 The same God who is love tells us in the 27th verse of the first chapter of the first book of
00:29:09.880 the Bible that he made us male and female in his image. 0.78
00:29:14.100 Right there, he defines the value of life.
00:29:17.000 He defines the gender binary.
00:29:18.620 And he defines the definition of marriage.
00:29:21.100 It's like he knew we were going to get confused.
00:29:24.040 He was like, I'm not even going to make you read 30 verses before I tell you how this is.
00:29:28.560 I mean, so many answers to the culture war questions that we have are found in that very
00:29:33.940 one verse in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.
00:29:37.500 And Baylor is saying, forget about it.
00:29:40.120 I don't care about the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.
00:29:42.940 I am higher than God.
00:29:44.200 I am better than God.
00:29:45.200 I am more compassionate than God.
00:29:46.560 And I am more loving than God.
00:29:48.960 That place of self-idolatry is extremely dangerous.
00:29:53.100 And I would just be careful about being a part of this anymore.
00:29:56.640 Now, if you went to Baylor, I understand.
00:29:58.560 You still want to watch their games.
00:29:59.920 You still want to support them in certain ways.
00:30:01.900 I would be very, very careful about supporting them with your dollars.
00:30:06.360 I'll just say that.
00:30:07.220 Now, if you don't know what a big deal Baylor is, I just want to spell this out for you.
00:30:13.340 They're one of the oldest operating universities in Texas, the world's largest Baptist-affiliated
00:30:18.160 university.
00:30:19.080 They enroll over 20,000 students across their undergrad, grad, and professional programs
00:30:24.380 every year.
00:30:25.380 The university contributes over $1 billion annually to the state's economy through research,
00:30:32.420 through employment, through community engagement, making it a key driver in Central Texas.
00:30:37.860 Again, that is why these progressive organizations are sending their dollars to Baylor and not
00:30:43.180 all of these other little organizations, although they may be doing that too.
00:30:46.760 But they understand that Baylor can change the theological makeup and the political makeup
00:30:52.100 of one of the last biggest Republican holdouts in the country.
00:30:57.480 It is extremely intentional and nefarious.
00:31:00.260 This is not simply people sending their dollars to places that are near and dear to their heart.
00:31:06.920 I mean, it is partly that, but it is part of a bigger strategy.
00:31:11.520 The university is still associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which holds
00:31:15.840 to the belief that, quote, sexual relationships honor God only when they occur within marriage
00:31:21.160 between one man and one woman.
00:31:23.520 Okay.
00:31:23.980 Those of you who are listening to or watching this, who are a part of the Baptist General Convention
00:31:28.800 of Texas, you need to flex any muscles you have, and you need to let go of your affiliation
00:31:35.640 with Baylor University.
00:31:36.580 Now, I know this is probably hard because I don't know the financial relationship between
00:31:40.560 Baylor and the Baptist General Convention of Texas, but I imagine that there is some kind
00:31:46.340 of financial benefit that the Baptist General Convention gets from its affiliation with Baylor.
00:31:51.420 And I would say, look, if you want to honor God, if you want to be faithful to God, if you
00:31:57.760 believe in the authority and the goodness and the love of God, then it's time to cut ties.
00:32:03.160 And I don't know that Baylor would care.
00:32:05.440 I don't know that they have any shame anymore.
00:32:07.400 Clearly, they are very proud of this.
00:32:11.040 But I would say, those of you who are faithful Baptists, who are part of that institution,
00:32:18.040 that organization, it's time to cut ties until Baylor makes a change.
00:32:22.680 There's a lot of contradictions in Baylor's mission statements.
00:32:26.740 Their mission statement as of 2025 is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service
00:32:32.040 by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community.
00:32:36.740 Their code of conduct says this.
00:32:38.260 We expect that each Baylor student will conduct himself or herself in accordance with Christian
00:32:42.780 principles as commonly perceived by Texas Baptists.
00:32:46.060 It's kind of a personal misconduct either on or off campus by anyone connected with Baylor
00:32:50.280 detracts from the Christian witness Baylor strives to present to the world the hindersful 1.00
00:32:54.040 accomplishment of the mission of the university.
00:32:58.200 Is there any consequence?
00:33:00.240 I don't know.
00:33:01.220 Baylor will be guided by the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God and that
00:33:05.580 physical sexual intimacy is to be expressed.
00:33:08.880 This is their sexual conduct policy is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity.
00:33:13.940 Thus, it is expected that Baylor student faculty and staff will engage in behaviors consistent
00:33:18.320 with this understanding of human sexuality.
00:33:23.220 Now, again, like I would say that is vague.
00:33:26.520 An official FAQ document titled Baylor University's Christian Mission and Identity included the
00:33:31.940 following.
00:33:32.460 All faculty and staff at Baylor are either Christian or Jewish, but do not need to sign a statement
00:33:37.820 of faith.
00:33:38.960 I don't know.
00:33:39.900 I think that's odd.
00:33:41.940 Institutions like Wheaton College, Liberty University, Biola.
00:33:46.400 Now, Wheaton also has its own progressive LGBTQ issues.
00:33:50.880 But they do require employees to sign a doctrinal statement.
00:33:56.320 Pepperdine requires faculties to support the university's religious mission.
00:34:01.480 That is weird to me.
00:34:03.220 Like, I would say that's a red flag that Baylor doesn't make its faculty do that.
00:34:09.320 Students are required to take two semesters of chapel.
00:34:12.700 However, these chapel sessions aren't necessarily theologically solid.
00:34:18.100 They could be all inclusive.
00:34:19.640 There's a lot of different kinds of theological perspectives, I would say, shared at these
00:34:27.260 at the chapel sessions, at the chapel events that they have to go to.
00:34:33.020 Let's look a little bit more at Baylor's gradual shift.
00:34:36.920 So shortly after the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision legalized gay marriage in September
00:34:42.440 or in 2015, Baylor's Board of Regents, that's the governing body of the university that's made
00:34:49.340 up of volunteer leaders who make decisions about the university budget and plans and things
00:34:52.920 like that, quietly removed language from the student conduct code that labeled homosexual
00:34:59.340 acts as a misuse of God's gift.
00:35:02.600 Okay.
00:35:02.780 So this is an institution that is, is going wherever the political winds blow.
00:35:08.940 This is not an institution that for the most part, I'm not talking about every single teacher
00:35:13.240 there or every single student there, surely.
00:35:15.740 But the leadership of Baylor University is scared of the world, is scared of politics.
00:35:21.260 Like they are going to go wherever the progressive mob takes them.
00:35:25.600 They are not willing to stand on the word of God courageously and say, you know what?
00:35:29.680 I know it's going to be unpopular.
00:35:31.720 Jesus says this.
00:35:32.880 Jesus says, if they hate you, it's because they hated me first.
00:35:36.720 They're not willing to do that.
00:35:38.040 They're going to go where the political winds blow.
00:35:40.100 They don't want to lose donor money.
00:35:41.860 They don't want people to be mad at them.
00:35:43.700 So they're going to quietly remove language that says what the Bible says.
00:35:47.120 Homosexuality is a sin after Obergefell says that people have a constitutional right to 1.00
00:35:52.240 be married to someone of the same sex.
00:35:55.700 It was seen as a significant step away from previous policy, though the university continued
00:36:00.660 to affirm a biblical view of sexuality in some of its official statements.
00:36:05.240 But there are other parts, not just the LGBTQ stuff, but other directions that Baylor is going
00:36:12.380 that indicates their progressive shift, including an embracing of BLM, social justice, ideology,
00:36:19.060 and we'll get into more of that in a second.
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00:37:24.080 While we're still in a break, before we get back into what we're talking about, I want
00:37:28.020 to remind you of Share the Arrows.
00:37:30.780 October 11th, outside of Dallas, Texas.
00:37:32.760 We are talking about yet another institution that has been captured by secularism.
00:37:38.440 This just goes to show this is a spiritual battle that is waging and nothing is safe.
00:37:43.840 And sometimes it feels like the walls are closing in around us when yet another church leader
00:37:50.000 that we looked up to has betrayed us.
00:37:52.220 Yet another entity or institution or organization or church or pastor has seemingly compromised
00:37:58.720 and turned their back on God, and it can just feel like you're alone.
00:38:01.920 Or maybe that's happened in your friend group or even in your family.
00:38:05.180 And you want to be around like-minded women who are hungry for the Word of God, who are
00:38:09.980 willing to stand on the Word of God, who want to worship together, want to be challenged
00:38:14.580 with biblical teaching and apologetics and theology.
00:38:17.800 You've got to come to Share the Arrows.
00:38:19.340 There is nothing else like it out there.
00:38:22.260 If you go to ShareTheArrows.com, you can learn all about it.
00:38:25.700 See our speaker lineup, see our general schedule, VIP tickets.
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00:38:44.520 Just go to ShareTheArrows.com.
00:38:46.620 That's ShareTheArrows.com.
00:38:48.100 In June of 2020, President Linda Livingstone publicly endorsed Black Lives Matter.
00:38:58.280 You know, the Black Lives Matter movement that said that they are trying to disrupt, dismantle
00:39:03.540 the Western prescribed definition of the nuclear family, who said that they were fighting for
00:39:09.180 women and children or moms and children and left out fathers. 1.00
00:39:14.820 You know BLM that is led by self-professed Marxists and God haters?
00:39:22.820 You know that organization?
00:39:24.920 Well, this Baptist University once again caved to pressure June of 2020 when the world needed 0.85
00:39:31.460 more than anything for Christians to stand firm and to be beacons of clarity in a moment
00:39:36.460 of chaos and confusion and decided, oh, no, I'm going to publicly endorse BLM.
00:39:41.340 And described it as a social movement that highlights the fact that once Black Lives Begin 0.68
00:39:48.140 to Matter, capital B, all lives will truly matter.
00:39:51.460 By the way, like just to know, I will never capitalize the description of your skin color.
00:39:56.980 I won't.
00:39:57.600 I won't do it.
00:39:58.400 I won't do it for Black. 1.00
00:39:59.480 I won't do it for white. 0.99
00:40:00.460 I'm not going to do it.
00:40:01.340 And when I see that, that is also an indication of someone's ideology or an indication that
00:40:06.960 that person just isn't critically thinking.
00:40:09.180 Like I'm just never going to capitalize the B.
00:40:10.920 And of course, the B is capitalized here.
00:40:13.240 She announced policies post George Floyd's death at Baylor, including diversity, equity
00:40:17.640 and inclusion.
00:40:18.500 That's DEI scholarships and promised increased non-white enrollment. 0.50
00:40:23.900 Do you hear that?
00:40:24.500 That, by the way, now is illegal, says the Supreme Court.
00:40:28.000 You can't do that.
00:40:28.660 You can't discriminate against someone because they have less melanin.
00:40:33.200 Duh.
00:40:34.040 And again, that is partiality, which God hates.
00:40:36.620 That is not the definition of justice.
00:40:38.440 One of the qualifiers of justice is impartial.
00:40:42.180 We see that throughout scripture.
00:40:43.620 You can go back to some 2020 episodes where we go into that in depth.
00:40:47.080 In her announcement of these DEI initiatives, Livingstone says racial justice is not just
00:40:51.580 ancillary to the university's mission.
00:40:53.380 Rather, it is part of the mission.
00:40:55.440 Really?
00:40:56.220 What does racial justice mean?
00:40:58.060 Does it mean punishing people because they have less melanin?
00:41:01.340 So you're not going to give them scholarships based on something that they couldn't control?
00:41:06.580 Wow.
00:41:07.160 I had no idea that was part of the Christian Baptist mission.
00:41:09.560 I've been a Baptist my whole life.
00:41:11.500 I had no idea.
00:41:12.640 What does racial justice mean?
00:41:14.600 Can you define that term for me?
00:41:16.700 Are you defining it by Ibram X.
00:41:18.480 Kendi, Robin DiAngelo?
00:41:21.080 Are you defining it by scripture?
00:41:22.360 I thought that that was supposed to play into this here.
00:41:25.920 Members of the, this is another part of their leftward shift.
00:41:29.400 We're back to the LGBTQ conversation.
00:41:31.460 Now, members of the LGBTQ student group Gamma Alpha Epsilon, gay, founded in 2011, tried 0.99
00:41:37.880 for 10 years to get official recognition as a campus organization from Baylor, but Baylor
00:41:42.260 denied these requests.
00:41:44.260 But then faculty started silently protesting by putting rainbow flags on all of their stuff,
00:41:49.820 students as well.
00:41:51.280 And then in May 2021, Baylor's Board of Regents passed a noncommittal resolution to explore
00:41:55.740 additional care connections and community for LGBTQ.
00:41:59.400 Students included a possibility of a chartered student group that aligned with Baylor's
00:42:03.460 Christian mission and policies.
00:42:05.360 How's that possible?
00:42:07.740 So Gay decided to remain an unofficial group.
00:42:10.720 But in 2022, after Baylor's student activities department held listening sessions with students,
00:42:16.680 faculty, and other stakeholders, who's that, I wonder, to discuss the needs of LGBTQ students,
00:42:22.560 the university officially recognized an LGBTQ student organization called PRISM.
00:42:30.820 Okay, so again, this is an organization.
00:42:33.660 This is an official student organization that is giving a voice to LGBTQ students and offering
00:42:40.720 them belonging.
00:42:42.160 This is an organization that is affirming.
00:42:44.780 Baylor spokesperson Lori Fogelman stated that PRISM's charter did not promote understandings
00:42:50.080 of sexuality contrary to biblical teaching.
00:42:52.480 I'm just a little confused about that.
00:42:54.460 I guess if you, like, exclude Romans 1, Genesis 1, 1 Corinthians 6.
00:43:00.800 Okay.
00:43:01.680 It was required to operate within Baylor's code of conduct, which prohibits advocacy against
00:43:06.100 the university's stance on marital fidelity.
00:43:08.340 But, again, since 2015, as we read earlier, doesn't actually condemn homosexual acts.
00:43:14.660 Also in 2021, you might remember this episode with my friend, Dr. Christina Crenshaw.
00:43:21.560 She was a Baylor University English lecturer.
00:43:24.220 She is, responded to a tweet about Biden's transgender rights executive order, quote unquote
00:43:30.280 transgender rights executive order, that stated that transgender individuals should not face
00:43:35.540 barriers in accessing facilities, so many euphemisms, or sports consistent with their quote unquote
00:43:41.420 gender identity.
00:43:43.160 So this means, hey, if you are receiving public funding, then you've got to allow men into girls 1.00
00:43:51.680 bathrooms and to play on girls teams.
00:43:54.800 Christina Crenshaw said on Acts January 2021, what if I don't want biological boys in the bathroom 0.99
00:44:01.080 with my biological daughter?
00:44:02.220 Do the 99% of us who do not struggle with gender dysphoria have a voice?
00:44:07.240 No.
00:44:08.100 Cool.
00:44:08.620 Okay.
00:44:08.960 So she said that several years ago, and this led to huge backlash from some Baylor students
00:44:14.440 who reported her tweet to various campus organizations, including Title IX, BU Equity, Baylor N-E-C-P,
00:44:22.520 and It's On Us, BU.
00:44:23.900 So apparently these are also campus organizations, if I'm understanding correctly, that are LGBTQ
00:44:30.380 affirming.
00:44:31.400 The Baylor laureate, the student newspaper, initially labeled her comments as transphobic,
00:44:36.100 but then later issued an apology and described her words as controversial.
00:44:41.280 She was on the show in February of 2021.
00:44:44.580 You should go back.
00:44:46.300 You should listen to that.
00:44:47.320 Watch that.
00:44:47.980 We shared the arrows with her, and I'm very grateful for the courage that she had and
00:44:52.300 still has in speaking up about these things.
00:44:54.480 Starting around 2021, LGBTQ plus students, including one named Veronica Bonifacio Penalas,
00:45:02.380 filed several Title IX complaints against Baylor with the Department of Education's Office
00:45:07.460 for Civil Rights.
00:45:09.380 These complaints alleged the university failed to address anti-LGBTQ harassment and discrimination.
00:45:15.100 So this is such a good lesson.
00:45:17.280 Even when you compromise, when you give in a little, they're never going to be happy.
00:45:22.460 Ever.
00:45:22.800 It doesn't matter what you say about social justice.
00:45:25.820 It doesn't matter what you say about racial minorities.
00:45:28.480 It doesn't matter that you quietly remove condemning language from your student conduct
00:45:33.760 code.
00:45:34.200 It doesn't matter that you are like hinting toward celebration and affirmation of LGBTQ
00:45:39.320 unless you fully embrace it and celebrate what God calls sin.
00:45:45.360 Unless you allow yourself to lay prostrate in front of them,
00:45:51.580 they are not going to be happy.
00:45:53.440 They are still going to come after you.
00:45:55.840 We see this over and over again.
00:45:57.580 By the way, pastors take note of that.
00:45:59.920 Don't give them an inch.
00:46:01.400 You don't have to.
00:46:02.060 Be faithful to the word of God.
00:46:03.780 That's it.
00:46:05.160 Penalas said that Baylor is using their religion as an excuse to back their homophobic beliefs.
00:46:12.260 Yada, yada, yada.
00:46:12.940 Well, in 2023, Baylor filed for Title IX religious exemptions, which protect the university's right
00:46:19.520 to uphold the biblical view of sexuality.
00:46:21.740 So that would mean that they're saying, hey, we don't want to have to allow men actually 0.99
00:46:27.580 into girls' bathrooms and play on girls' teams.
00:46:30.240 So we want a religious exemption.
00:46:33.180 They petitioned for dismissal for ongoing investigations claiming discrimination against students.
00:46:39.580 They wanted an exemption from Title IX rules that require non-discrimination based on sexual
00:46:44.020 orientation or so-called gender identity.
00:46:46.140 They wanted assurance that enforcing its religious policies won't be considered, quote, sexual harassment,
00:46:51.220 which is exactly what the Biden administration tried to do through their unconstitutional Title IX
00:46:56.860 changes.
00:46:58.020 Well, when they filed for these exemptions, over 1,300 people in the Baylor community signed
00:47:02.580 an open letter in August of that year arguing that the university's request for Title IX
00:47:07.660 religious exemptions raised deep moral and spiritual concerns that are at the heart of
00:47:13.340 Baylor's past, present, future.
00:47:14.920 Blah.
00:47:15.340 Like, I think all of these people just majored in poetry.
00:47:19.360 Like, none of their words have substance, which is actually why they're dangerous and actually
00:47:23.860 how propaganda gets you because it sounds really good and sophisticated, but it actually means
00:47:30.100 nothing or it actually means something really nefarious and they're just trying to make it
00:47:34.380 sound good and spiritual.
00:47:35.940 So you have to be discerning about that kind of stuff.
00:47:38.500 This open letter urge for the university to end the harmful separate and equal treatment
00:47:42.620 of LGBTQIA plus people.
00:47:45.480 So and what they mean by that is not allowing boys into girls' bathrooms. 0.59
00:47:48.700 Um, take all necessary steps to ensure that LGBTQIA students on campus are protected from 1.00
00:47:53.860 sexual harassment.
00:47:54.660 Again, they're defining sexual harassment, how Biden defined sexual harassment, which was
00:48:00.500 calling a man he or not letting him into the girl's bathroom. 0.59
00:48:05.980 Okay.
00:48:06.340 So this is just to show you that Baylor is getting a lot of pushback for even trying a little bit
00:48:12.600 to maintain its Christian values when it comes to sexuality.
00:48:16.780 A religious exemption accountability project and advocacy group focused on holding religious
00:48:21.740 institutions accountable for Title IX exemptions expressed their outrage about this.
00:48:26.680 Baylor University specifically sought assurance that the university and its students cannot
00:48:30.640 be accused of sexual harassment for their behavior towards LGBTQ people.
00:48:35.340 Your religious students should not require you to act in a way that may be classified as sexual
00:48:40.080 harassment.
00:48:40.460 Well, if you redefine sexual harassment to mean telling the truth and acknowledging the science
00:48:48.120 of gender, then yeah, they're going to be guilty of that. 0.99
00:48:52.480 Well, we can just redefine everything then.
00:48:54.860 And that of course is what the left does.
00:48:56.720 They capture language without you even realizing it.
00:48:59.920 And before you know it, you start thinking that it is bigoted or hateful or harassing to simply
00:49:06.500 say what is true to simply abide by God's good precepts.
00:49:13.020 And that's how you get, they get you.
00:49:14.640 When you change the language, you change people's conscious, consciousnesses and their consciences.
00:49:22.080 And that's exactly what is going on here, which is why it is so important to dissect every
00:49:27.360 word and ask, what do you mean by that?
00:49:30.700 What does that mean?
00:49:31.700 And where did you get that definition?
00:49:33.660 We really can't have a productive conversation and dialogue and debate unless we are defining
00:49:38.820 our terms the same way.
00:49:40.920 And like, I want to know, where did you get that definition of sexual harassment?
00:49:45.220 If it's from the Biden administration, okay, well, I don't consider them an authority because
00:49:49.060 they're ideologically opposed to me.
00:49:50.820 So we're going to have to define these things.
00:49:52.900 What is sexual?
00:49:53.720 What is harassment?
00:49:54.980 And typically, if you get into that kind of specific dialogue with someone on the left,
00:49:59.920 they get very frustrated and then they'll just say, you know, you're hateful and bow
00:50:04.380 out.
00:50:04.740 But it's still really important.
00:50:06.560 And you're not losing if that happens because you're at the very least getting them to think
00:50:11.160 about what they mean when they talk.
00:50:13.300 And when it comes to things like abortion in particular, you will find that a lot of progressives
00:50:18.760 don't know what they mean when they talk.
00:50:20.940 And I'm not trying to sound condescending, but they use words that they've never really thought
00:50:24.840 about before.
00:50:26.020 And so it's your job to think about them.
00:50:27.680 And it's your job to call them on that in a respectful way and get them to think a little
00:50:31.820 bit more.
00:50:32.740 And even if you don't win that discussion or debate, you have no idea what seed that might
00:50:37.560 plant in their minds that could take root and flower into something really beautiful
00:50:42.640 and good later on.
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00:52:12.800 Open Secrets is a website that tracks campaign contributions from individuals that are associated
00:52:20.180 with certain organizations or institutions.
00:52:22.860 And on their website, you see that in the 2024 election cycle, Baylor-affiliated individuals
00:52:29.020 donated $126,000, a little bit over that, to different candidates.
00:52:35.560 But predominantly, it seems from what we can see on Open Secrets, that this money was given
00:52:42.540 to Democratic candidates like Kamala Harris and Colin Allred.
00:52:45.800 He is the guy that ran against Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
00:52:51.880 And so it suggests institutional alignment with the Democratic Party, even among its faculty
00:52:57.800 and staff.
00:52:59.680 The Baylor Board of Regents passed a resolution in 2025 acknowledging the university's founders'
00:53:05.420 ties to slavery and formed a panel to review memorials and statues linked to slaveholders,
00:53:09.960 signaling a reckoning with its historical past.
00:53:14.040 I also think that that is just nonsense.
00:53:16.900 I mean, every single country has a storied past.
00:53:21.300 It is true.
00:53:22.440 History is complex.
00:53:23.860 People are complex.
00:53:25.040 We are accomplishing nothing by tearing down these statues and apologizing today for something
00:53:31.660 that happened a long time ago.
00:53:33.440 That doesn't mean we should rejoice that that happened.
00:53:35.560 We could even condemn what happened.
00:53:37.880 But today, you are not held responsible for the sins of the people that kind of maybe looked
00:53:42.620 like you in the same general geographic region as you 200 years ago.
00:53:47.220 Again, that's no biblical definition of justice.
00:53:49.840 And this is just another example to me of Baylor being weak.
00:53:53.720 Like, you're soft.
00:53:55.440 Be courageous.
00:53:56.700 At the very least, on the creation order stuff.
00:53:59.740 Like, on the very least, the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.
00:54:04.480 And I'll just remind you of the alliteration that I made up several years ago that we've said
00:54:08.840 so many times.
00:54:10.180 Baylor, if you're listening to this, the definition of marriage and gender.
00:54:15.000 Okay?
00:54:15.240 Specifically of marriage, but it applies to the definition of gender as male and female.
00:54:20.260 It's not just about a few verses in Leviticus.
00:54:22.640 It's not just about Romans 1.
00:54:24.560 It's not just about 1 Corinthians 6.
00:54:26.420 It's not just about the passages that are specifically condemning homosexuality.
00:54:30.920 Although, that would be enough.
00:54:32.940 I mean, those passages are real.
00:54:34.640 The word of God is inerrant.
00:54:36.000 It's infallible.
00:54:36.820 It's authoritative.
00:54:38.140 And so, even if those were the only verses that exist that condemn homosexuality, that
00:54:43.380 would be enough for Christians to agree with that.
00:54:46.600 Because the most loving thing we can always do is agree with God.
00:54:49.420 But it's not just that.
00:54:50.860 It's the affirmative and positive definition of marriage and gender that we see throughout
00:54:56.980 scripture that has not only physical and earthly significance, but eternal and spiritual
00:55:01.500 significance.
00:55:02.180 So, here's the alliteration.
00:55:04.520 The definition of marriage between one man and one woman is one rooted in creation.
00:55:09.080 We see that in Genesis 1.
00:55:10.800 It is, too, reiterated throughout scripture.
00:55:13.280 For example, honor your father and mother.
00:55:16.540 It is repeated by Jesus himself.
00:55:19.000 Matthew 19, 4 through 5.
00:55:21.180 Dave, have you not read that in the beginning he made them male and female?
00:55:24.960 As he is answering a question about divorce, he goes all the way back to creation to specifically
00:55:30.340 define marriage as between one man and one woman.
00:55:33.820 Repeated by Jesus, it is representative of Christ and the church.
00:55:37.740 We see that in Ephesians 5.
00:55:39.140 That the marriage between one man and one woman is representative of Christ, the groom, and the 0.86
00:55:45.520 church, his bride.
00:55:46.780 God, you cannot have that with two men.
00:55:49.280 You cannot have that with two women, which really means there is no such thing as homosexual
00:55:54.020 marriage.
00:55:54.560 It is actually, according to the God who created marriage, an oxymoron.
00:55:59.060 The spiritual reality that is represented in the earthly union of man and woman is eternal.
00:56:06.560 And therefore, it is reflective of the gospel because it is representative of Christ in the
00:56:11.900 church.
00:56:12.360 Earthly marriage is reflective of the gospel.
00:56:14.580 You know, that message of good news that contains salvation for us through Christ, that, yeah,
00:56:22.320 that is what earthly marriage between one man and one woman reflects.
00:56:25.860 The Bible starts with a marriage.
00:56:28.080 The Bible ends with a marriage. 0.94
00:56:30.240 The marriage that the Bible starts with is a representation, a reflection of the marriage
00:56:36.680 that the Bible ends with.
00:56:39.260 And it's not just the Bible that has these bookends of marriage.
00:56:43.380 It is all of time actually starts with a marriage and ends with a marriage.
00:56:49.680 That's how important it is.
00:56:51.840 And that is why, Baylor, as you get this wrong, you are starting to get everything else wrong
00:56:55.780 too.
00:56:56.560 Because those who deny Genesis 1, 27 always end up denying John 14, 6, that Jesus is the
00:57:03.820 way, the truth, the life.
00:57:05.320 No one comes to the Father except through him.
00:57:07.620 Because when you start believing that you are nicer and better and more loving than God,
00:57:13.700 you exchange the God of scripture for the God of self.
00:57:17.220 And self-idolatry goes all the way back to the garden.
00:57:20.900 So if you want to know why Baylor and all of these other professing Christian institutions
00:57:25.000 are going the way they are, that's why.
00:57:28.320 It's self-idolatry.
00:57:29.380 All of us can be guilty of it, but all of us can be delivered out of it by Christ.
00:57:34.400 And that is what Baylor needs.
00:57:35.720 And they don't need a dime from you until they repent.
00:57:41.020 There's some more commentary about this, and I'll read that in a second.
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00:58:47.000 I just want to say also, I know we mentioned her earlier, but huge shout out to Megan Basham. 0.77
00:58:56.380 As usual, she is one of the first people that I saw talk about this.
00:59:00.720 She is so good at tracking down the money. 0.91
00:59:03.000 She's going to be on a Friday episode of Relatable very soon in person as we continue to pray for her
00:59:09.160 full recovery from cancer.
00:59:11.340 And she's going to be giving us even more insight to the nefarious organizations that are strategically
00:59:16.980 funding previously conservative and solid institutions like Baylor.
00:59:22.340 Danny Burke, who is the associate pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:59:27.420 He's also a professor at the Seminary Boyce College.
00:59:31.080 We have cited him many times before.
00:59:32.800 He has good insights.
00:59:33.820 He says,
00:59:34.180 This is illuminating and sad and not at all surprising.
00:59:37.540 Baylor has been moving away from Christian faithfulness for decades, but it's still sad
00:59:41.580 to watch another nail in the coffin of a once great Christian university.
00:59:45.780 I completely echo that sentiment.
00:59:48.160 Then Reverend Matt Kennedy, he's a senior pastor at an Anglican church in Corpus Christi.
00:59:53.360 He said this.
00:59:53.980 I thought this was interesting and I actually agree.
00:59:55.920 He said,
00:59:56.140 It's much better to send your child to a secular university hostile to the faith than to a Christian 1.00
01:00:01.540 university like Baylor.
01:00:02.720 Better the wolf with bared fangs than the wolf disguised as a shepherd.
01:00:07.820 That is profound and really good and really good because at least if you go to a secular 0.99
01:00:13.540 hostile university, which I don't necessarily recommend that you pay for that and send your
01:00:17.860 kids to that, but they know what they're walking into.
01:00:20.540 They're walking into the lion's den.
01:00:22.040 So they know that what they are going to be hearing and seeing is not of God.
01:00:26.740 And so they can kind of identify that, that, okay, everything this professor says is probably
01:00:31.520 not going to be true.
01:00:32.480 It's not in alignment with my faith, but if they go to a place like Baylor that they
01:00:37.640 expect to be a bastion of truth of, you know, of biblical doctrine and their professor of
01:00:45.880 Christian ethics or whatever starts saying things that aren't biblical, well, then they
01:00:49.100 start to second guess themselves.
01:00:50.340 Okay.
01:00:50.520 This is a Baptist Christian university.
01:00:52.700 Well, he must just be true and I must've been taught wrong in the past.
01:00:56.900 And so I would say don't do either of those options as a parent, but I think the principle
01:01:02.760 of what he is saying is absolutely true.
01:01:05.000 There's so much that we could say in all of this, but it, I, it is so obviously a spiritual
01:01:13.000 battle that is waging here.
01:01:15.060 The institutional capture by secular progressive organizations, foundations is real.
01:01:20.960 And we, as Christians have to be on guard.
01:01:24.280 You have to guard your heart and your mind and your wallet to ensure that you are not sending
01:01:30.480 the treasure, the money that God has entrusted you with to steward faithfully to institutions
01:01:38.420 that are actively fighting against his word and trying to infiltrate the minds of students
01:01:45.500 and Christian congregations to convince them that sin isn't really sin.
01:01:50.860 That is satanic.
01:01:51.880 That is evil.
01:01:52.600 I am not saying that everyone associated with Baylor is on board with that, but enough people
01:01:57.380 are that they are taking money from overtly progressive organizations who are bent on the
01:02:08.120 compromising of the church.
01:02:10.740 And that is a very, very dangerous kind of organization institution to partner with.
01:02:16.060 All right.
01:02:16.560 We'll have more on this in the future and more on Friday.
01:02:20.720 I will be having a very, um, heated, but very productive conversation that you guys are really
01:02:28.320 going to enjoy.
01:02:29.800 And I will see you guys back here then.
01:02:38.120 We'll see you guys.