I didn't know that public universities are now taking theological positions (!) concerning homosexuality. David French, of the Alliance Defense fund, notes the following:
Faced with large and active religious student groups who are often engaged in public debate over the Left’s currently fashionable civil-rights issue — homosexuality — public universities simply cannot restrain themselves. They are taking sides, not just politically, ideologically, and culturally, but religiously.
Take this official statement from the Georgia Institute of Technology (in its so-called “Safe Space” training manual):
Many religious traditions have taught, and some continue to teach, that homosexuality is immoral. These condemnations are based primarily on a few isolated passages from the Bible. Historically, Biblical passages taken out of context have been used to justify such things as slavery, the inferior status of women, and the persecution of religious minorities.
Displeased that the State of Georgia is comparing those who hold traditional religious views of sexuality to slaveowners? At least Georgia does not make religious conservatives look as, well, silly as the University of Michigan does:
Some texts of the Old Testament are used to condemn homosexuality. Taken literally and out of context, Biblical passages can be used to justify slavery, prohibit the wearing of red dresses, and eating of shrimp and shellfish, and to reinforce the inferiority of women.
Such commentary strikes me as quite out of bounds. Of course texts can be taken out of context, but that is not to say that the forbidding of homosexual practices are such texts. So now universities have become expert in biblical hermeneutics? See Robert A. J. Gagnon The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Text and Hermeneutics and also Robert A. J. Gagnon and Dan O. Via, Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views.
Note: ADF is challenging Georgia Tech’s Safe Space Training program in federal court.