Mon May 2, 2022 – 7:40 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A Christian university committee recommended that a professor who officiated a same-sex “wedding” leave his teaching position once his contract expires this year.
In a memo issued last month, a dean at Calvin University called professor Joseph Kuilema’s decision to officiate the “wedding” of Nicole Sweda and Annica Steen a “serious lapse in judgment.”
Benita Wolters-Fredlund, dean of Calvin University’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, noted in the memo that while faculty at Calvin University can and do disagree with the LGBTQ+ guidance of the Christian Reformed Church, the school’s official denomination, they must do so within parameters determined by the college.
The memo also cited Kuilema’s “lack of transparency” with the university about his decision, and noted that he had been denied tenure in 2018 due to “concerns around his tone and strategy with regard to controversial theological topics and LGBT+ advocacy.”
While adding that the professor’s “many positive contributions to the community” made their decision a “heavy one,” Wolters-Fredlund concluded that his post-2018 appointments were a “de facto probationary period,” and that his officiation of the same-sex “wedding” was a “failure to
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