Name: Messiah College Location: Grantham, PA Religious Affiliation: No Official Denominational Affiliation or Religious Affiliation Enrollment: 2,864 Website: www.messiah.edu Accreditation: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education |
Concerning GLBT Equality:
The Messiah College 2006-07 Student Handbook states:
Scriptural Guidelines
As a community we believe that certain scriptural teachings apply to us as they have to all people in all cultures. Our lives are to be characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We are to use our gifts in doing such things as serving, teaching, encouraging, giving, leading, and showing mercy. In contrast, we are to avoid such sinful practices as drunkenness, stealing, dishonesty, profanity, occult practices, sexual intercourse outside of marriage, homosexual behavior, and sexually exploitative or abusive behavior. Although wrong attitudes such as greed, jealousy, pride, lust, prejudice, and factiousness are harder to detect than wrong behaviors, both are prohibited as sinful and destructive of community life and of the body of Christ.
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