BOB JONES III, FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, APOLOGIZES FOR ADVOCATING STONING OF GAYS 35 YEARS AGO~COWED BY LGBT CAMPUS GROUP & FAILS TO CLARIFY DOCTRINE

Fundamentalist Leader Apologizes, 35 Years Later, for Advocating Stoning of Gays

Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University, apologized for the 1980 statement in response to a petition by LGBT students and alumni.

SEE: http://bjunity.org/;

EXCERPT: "BJUnity provides a safe harbor—a network of people and resources—for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and straight affirming people affected by fundamentalist Christianity. BJUnity affirms and empowers lgbt+ people from Bob Jones University and other Independent Fundamental Baptist organizations. BJUnity confronts homophobia in compassion, dignity and love, with the objective to promote dialogue and change."

SEE: http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2015/03/24/fundamentalist-leader-apologizes-35-years-later-advocating-stoning-gays;

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A fundamentalist Christian leader has apologized for saying gay people should be stoned — 35 years after he made the statement.

Bob Jones III, chancellor and former president of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., issued a statement of apology over the weekend, a few days after the delivery of a petition by BJUnity, a support group for past and president BJU students who are LGBT, the Greenville News reports.

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SEE: http://blogs.bju.edu/pr/2015/03/21/former-bju-president-apologizes-1980-statement/

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Bob Jones III apologizes for stone-the-gays remarks:

SEE: http://www.religionnews.com/2015/03/23/bob-jones-iii-apologizes-stone-gays-remarks/;

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Bob Jones III, who stepped down as BJU president in 2005, made the original remarks while visiting Jimmy Carter’s White House, delivering a petition with 70,000 signatures opposing greater legal protections for gays and lesbians.

“I’m sure this will be greatly misquoted,” Jones said at the time. “But it would not be a bad idea to bring the swift justice today that was brought in Israel’s day against murder and rape and homosexuality. I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands.”

“Upon now reading these long-forgotten words, they seem to me as words belonging to a total stranger — were my name not attached,” he wrote. “I cannot erase them, but wish I could, because they do not represent the belief of my heart or the content of my preaching. Neither before, nor since, that event in 1980 have I ever advocated the stoning of sinners.”

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Former BJU president apologizes for anti-gay comments
made years ago:

PASTOR MANNING, HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY

QUOTES BIBLE CALLING FOR STONING OF GAYS; OUTDOOR SIGN VANDALIZED: