Southern Adventist University – Finding Beauty in Homosexuality / Gay and Lesbian Studies Expert Dr. René Drumm on Faculty!! / State of the Art Wellness Center / Bathhouse / College Student Beaten and Tasered by Police While Preaching / Religion Professor Dr. Edwin Reynolds: Belief in Second Advent was an Hallucination

Dear Power of Pride,

Thanks a lot for your great news and views for the Community. You seem to have a West Coast focus. But surprise, surprise, Southern is pretty good too.

The faculty here is diverse and tolerant. Please let your readership know there’s no need to drive all the way out to PUC to get a quality Adventist education.

Mack

!!YOUR ANSWERS FROM POWER OF PRIDE – GAY ADVENTIST NEWS!!

Dear fellow Adventist,

What you’re saying has a lot of truth in it. Certainly for the intersexed and genderqueer, Southern offers a very understanding environment. In addition to a state-of-the-art bathhouse, this university offers instruction from internationally renowned professors with qualifications in gay studies.

LEADING SCHOLARS ON FACULTY

Professors who have published authoritative works dealing with the intersexed and genderqueer communities in the Adventist church.

“A common myth exists that people are biologically ‘either or,’ either biologically male or biologically female. In reality, people are much more complex. Some individuals are positioned along the continuum between male and female.” (René Drumm, The Social Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventists, Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, p 3-4) Dr. René D. Drumm chairs the Southern Adventist University Social Work and Family Studies Department. http://swfs.southern.edu/faculty/facultymain.htm

WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN THE CHURCH STORAGE ROOM

Dr. Drumm is, of course, an expert on orientations:

“Among men who engage in anonymous sexual encounters with men, the majority identify themselves as heterosexual and more than half (54-58 percent) are married. In another study that examines sexual labeling of men who have had sex with men and have requested an HlV blood test, 25 percent reported a heterosexual orientation.” (René Drumm, The Social Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventists, Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, pp 3-7, 3-8)

Yes, according to Southern professor Drumm, that huge body of 16 million Adventists is considerably more diverse than church PR types are letting on. You may remember when the Adventists set up a gay to straight therapy center. Dr. Drumm didn’t buy into the concept at all. She says “There was and is no ‘cure’ for homosexuality – although church leaders wanted to believe there might be.” (Drumm, supra, p 3-19)

And Dr. Drumm speaks to an important challenge to the Community here — there are still, believe it or not, some of those old-fashioned, Bible-based types who say that gayness should be cured.

Even at Dr. Drumm’s institution, some of these prophets and evangelists are on the loose. Or were, prior to being packed off to a psychiatric facility.

ABSORBED IN EVANGELISM

You see, a radical group of Bible scholars formed the Twelve Disciples commando unit. Their plan was to engineer really creative, attention-getting evangelistic efforts with a large turnout of students. Brother Ezekiel studied by day in the nursing school, but in the evenings he was quite a different man. After those hours and hours of mandatory worships, chapels, and the ongoing message: “You’re not doing enough to witness”, he and his brethren in the Twelve Disciples planned an action so daring that it would finally shake those sleeping students awake!

“They did not harmonize upon every point of doctrine, but all were moved by the Spirit of God, and united in the absorbing aim to win souls to Christ.” (Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p 257)

“Early in the morning on March 8, a male nursing student snuck in to Thatcher South, pulled the fire alarm and eventually made it to the roof of Wright Hall to preach that God was coming”. (Emily Young, Police escort preaching student off of rooftop, Southern Accent, 19 Mar 2009)

You may say, “So what! Adventists have been preaching that for the longest time”. Well, they did. But that was back in the days before Cliff Goldstein and Dr. René Drumm overhauled, and modernized, Adventist theology.

So, the University administration was really glad that students wanted to preach the Old Gospel?

“The servants of God trod a rugged path. Men of influence and learning employed their powers against them.” (Ellen G. White The Great Controversy, p 258)

Not at all. Their amateur security service called in the Collegedale Police to conduct a full manhunt for the evangelistic team. “Campus Safety officers and the Collegedale Police officers looked for the student for almost an hour before finding him standing on the peak of the roof of Wright Hall with his arms outstretched.” (Young, supra)

The Disciples had planned things carefully: ““His plan was to turn on all the alarms, and a huge group of girls and guys in front of Wright Hall would be there, and he would preach to them,” said Justin Wilson, a senior theology major and a friend of the student’s who was at the scene.” (Young, supra)

But that was the plan. The University would have none of it. They wanted the student to forget about his preaching plans. “Collegedale Police Sgt. Darrell Hannah and Campus Safety Officer Joshua Fraker climbed to the roof and tried to convince the student to back away”. (Young, supra)

[26] If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
[27] And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14

Brother Ezekiel was willing to bear the cross for the Gospel. And he didn’t have long to wait!

“He did not show any sign of moving away so Hannah slowly came up behind him, grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him back from the edge of the roof, according to the report.” (Young, supra)

[48] Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. [49] And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. [50] And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. Matthew 26

CALLING UPON THE LORD IN DAY OF ADVERSITY

And that was the day that salvation came to Southern.

“Hannah pulled one of the student’s hands behind his back and handcuffed it, but the student began resisting and screaming for God to help him.” (Young, supra)

[13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10

LET’S TASER THAT “DANGEROUS CRIMINAL” WHO DARED TO PREACH THE SECOND ADVENT!!

““He had a lot of adrenalin and was very strong,” Hannah said in the police report. “We were trying to maintain our balance and to keep [the student] from harming us or himself.”
After telling him to put his hands behind his back multiple times, Hannah used a stun gun on the student’s shoulder several times. The student’s muscles tensed and he said, “But no pain shall befall you,” according to the Campus Safety report.” (Young, supra)

“”By how gentle degrees does God prepare us for His will! Two years ago, a piece of brick grazed my shoulders. It was a year after that the stone struck me between the eyes. Last month I received one blow, and this evening two, one before we came into the town, and one after we were gone out; but both were as nothing: for though one man struck me on the breast with all his might, and the other on the mouth with such force that the blood gushed out immediately, I felt no more pain from either of the blows than if they had touched me with a straw.”–John Wesley, Works, vol. 3, pp. 297, 298.” (cited in Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p 259)

Our brother Ezekiel was strengthened. And pain? Just as with the great John Wesley, he felt none!

KARATE CHOP TO NECK AND CHOKEHOLD

The forces of darkness would not give up easily, though.

“When the student still would not comply, Hannah struck him in his brachial neck muscles, according to the report. This maneuver normally knocks a person to the ground, but the student did not respond to it. Then Hannah put pressure on his carotid arteries, which usually causes brief unconsciousness. This made the student relax his arm muscles so Hannah could put him in handcuffs.” (Young, supra)

“WRESTLING” HANDCUFFED PREACHER TO THE GROUND

And so they took him down: “Hannah and Fraker helped him lie down on the roof.” (Young, supra)

All this “help” had left the Adventist evangelist unconscious. Had the SWAT boys gone too far? Was the zealous evangelist dead?

“Hannah was checking the student’s vital signs when the student shook his head, opened his eyes and asked where he was.” (Young, supra)

THE LIE

They just had to paint Brother Ezekiel in the most unreasonable light, so: “After several minutes he began to explain that he believed God would return that night, and he had to tell Southern to be prepared.” (Young, supra)

The Adventists invariably talk about “Jesus” “coming again”, and do not, as a rule, use the term “God is coming again”.

After the tasering and beating, what kind of condition was our Adventist evangelist in? He couldn’t even walk: “Around 8:30 a.m. a ladder truck from the local fire department arrived to take the student off the roof.” (Young, supra)

And all this brutality got our brother discouraged? No way!

““In the ladder truck on the way down he was just preaching away,” Penrod said.” (Young, supra)

[2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2 Tim. 4

And they booked this boy into the local jail, where witnesses would see him, and he’d have access to a lawyer?

Not at all. In his severely injured condition, “The student was taken to Parkridge East Hospital for medical evaluation”. (Young, supra)

Now what to do? The local police department and the Adventist university were faced with a potential lawsuit of epic proportions. There was no evidence that Brother Ezekiel was planning to jump off the building. He just wanted to preach. If Brother had been allowed to do so without harassment, he would have returned to base camp for food later. But this was the old story of “Do it now, and do it my way”. And if you don’t, there’s overwhelming force.

So he’s been locked up until 1) his physical injuries heal, and 2) he “forgets” what happened to him. “then he was taken to Parkridge Valley Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He was not arrested, but taken into custody for his own protection, Penrod said.” (Young, supra) In the psych ward, plenty of drug therapies are available to erase Brother Ezekiel’s memory.

But taking no chances, the Adventist university has thrown him out of the school: “The student withdrew from classes on March 13 and will be allowed to enroll again at Southern if he meets admission criteria, according to Southern officials.” (Young, supra)

Get this! The evangelist is drugged up and tied down in the psych facility. And he “voluntarily withdraws” from “all his classes”?

Cleartext: This boy isn’t getting out of psych anytime soon.

“Southern administration also issued an official statement.

“While Southern encourages its students to involve themselves in ministry and actively spreading the Gospel story, the university also places a high priority on caring for the safety and well-being of each student,” the statement said. “Southern’s faculty and staff have actively worked to keep all involved students safe. We are grateful to the emergency personnel who assisted [the student] back into a safe situation.”" (Young, supra)

They cared SO MUCH about the safety of Brother Ezekiel. SO MUCH that Brother got tasered, choked, tackled, cuffed, and beaten. Ah, you could say, That was just the police doing the heavy hitting. Not Southern staff.

And in a way its true. The “campus security” is not authorized to physically attack and take down someone who is not threatening immediate harm. But in the official statement, they express gratitude to the taser artist.

So who’s at fault here? Obviously, the student believed what he heard in the mandatory worships, chapels, and religion classes. The repeated exhortations to missionary work soaked in and bore fruit. Its the system at fault.

Or is it really? Sure these people still talk Bible, mission, and what not, but new times have come to Southern. Gospel evangelists get the third degree, while gay evangelists get awards and scholarly recognition.

“If we allow that homosexuality may have followed as a result of sin, does that mean we cannot find beauty in it, or even allow it to exist within the framework of God’s plan? If other changes occurred after the fall which we readily accept, should homosexuality be different?” (Southern Adventist University Professor Dr. René Drumm, supra, pp 3-20 – 3-21)

If only Brother Ezekiel had paid attention to the lessons of Dr. Drumm and her colleagues, he would have raised a gay flag over the admin building. And none of the taserings, beatings, or lock up would have happened.

So welcome to the new Southern.

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