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After two professors were dismissed for breaking the “community lifestyle commitment” by performing homosexual acts, Eastern Mennonite University students requested a forum with the university President.

HARRISONBURG, Va.— Eastern Mennonite University President Loren Swartzendruber has agreed to meet students to discuss the dismissal of two professors for homosexual acts and the resignation of another in protest.

Swartzendruber agreed to attend the forum Tuesday at the request of a small group of students at the Christian school.

“We will not tolerate bigotry, poor language, inappropriate comments about persons of any sexual orientation,” he said.

Eastern Mennonite is a private school founded in 1917. Most of its 1,400 students are Mennonites, whose members are pacifists and adopt a simple lifestyle.

At EMU, students and faculty agree to a “community lifestyle commitment” that requires them to “refrain from sexual relationships outside of marriage, pornography, acts of violence, abusive or demeaning language” and the use of alcohol or tobacco.

Source: Daily Press© 2004 The Daily Press

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