A Christian Baptist university in Georgia recently issued a new employment requirement: heterosexuality.
Shorter University, a small, private college, is now mandating that employees be straight. All 200 university employees are required to sign a “lifestyle pledge” which also stipulates that employees abstain from premarital sex, drug use and adultery.
Shorter President Don Knowles told WSBTV that while they are not trying to offend, the school is just trying “to declare who we are.”
Students and employees are uneasy about the pledge. One anonymous employee told the Voice, a LBGT newspaper in Atlanta, : “We now will live in fear that someone who doesn’t like us personally or someone who has had a bad day will report that we’ve been drinking or that we are suspected of being gay.”
