Reply #12: I think this is happening at my very liberal seminary. [View All]

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Conservative students are enrolling and then complaining that their beliefs are not affirmed or tolerated. Meanwhile, I don't see the conservative seminary that's literally 2 miles down the road bending over backward to embrace or even accommodate liberal theologies.

This other seminary has a statement of faith that must be signed to graduate. My seminary, which is "open and affirming" to GBLT, women, and progressive people of faith, is striving to be open to everyone regardless of belief in an attempt to include everyone.

The impulse to be inclusive is nobly motivated, but in the end, I feel like it's the DLC all over again. Moving right to try to please everyone will eventually only serve to piss off your left wing base. What was that old saying about having such an open mind your brain falls out? Why do we on the left do this to ourselves?