2/7 WOUNDED HEARTS: Questions
Part 1 (Section A)
Southwest Baptist University
"Questions of the Heart"
Part 1. The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
Questions 1-33 (Sections A, B, and C)
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Section A-1: ~Southwest Baptist University and The
Law~
(Questions 1-7)
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Question 1 (3 parts)
a) As employees and
administrative personnel
of a Christian institution, are you and your
colleagues subject to and obligated to obey the
laws of the local, state and federal governments?
Yes/No
b) Is it the moral or
ethical obligation or
the legal responsibility of you or any other SBU
employee to report potentially injurious or serious
criminal activity among the SBU staff, associates
or supporters to the proper authorities?
Yes/No
c) In your opinion, is
there any occasion when possible
criminal or unethical conduct by SBU personnel which
has resulted in injury or substantial or recurrent harm
to others should be concealed from the proper authorities?
Yes/No
Question 2 (16 parts, a - p)
2. If
an SBU official, administrator, faculty or
staff member, employee or agent had engaged in
any of the following illegal or unethical activities,
in your opinion, would this be GROUNDS for
DISMISSAL from Southwest Baptist University
and/or
NOTIFICATION of
the proper governmental,
professional, or church authorities or regulating
agencies?
a) Complicity or participation
in FORGING
or altering medical, academic, and/or other
RECORDS in order
to conceal previous
wrongdoing by the SBU administration or
staff.
Yes/No
b) The presentation of
false, misleading, or
incomplete testimony or information during
the discovery process or civil
DEPOSITION.
Yes/No
c) The distribution of
FALSE, misleading,
or
incomplete INFORMATION
to local, state,
or federal governmental
OFFICIALS in
the investigation of a civil or criminal
complaint against SBU, its agents, employees,
or associates with the intent of defaming or
defrauding other individuals or concealing
unethical or criminal conduct by SBU associates.
Yes/No
d) The threatening of
RETALIATION (harm
to an individual's academic career, employment,
reputation, family or friends) against an
individual if that person discussed or
revealed illegal or unethical wrongdoing
by SBU faculty, administration, employees,
or associates.
Yes/No
e) The continual indoors
daytime (during business
hours) "fanspray" application of dangerous,
now-banned pesticides by an UNCERTIFIED
applicator on the SBU campus while students
were present.
Yes/No
f) The continual indoor
daytime (during business
hours) "fanspray" application of dangerous,
now-banned pesticides by an UNCERTIFIED
applicator on the SBU campus while students
were present--even AFTER
several students
had reported injuries and at least one was
acutely exposed twice and permanently disabled.
Yes/No
g) The purposeful
DISREGARD of a
PHYSICIAN'S
written
INSTRUCTIONS which
resulted in
detriment and injury to a student's health.
Yes/No
h) Complicity or participation
in the use of
ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
in the
orchestrated
DEFAMATION of
individuals
in order to
DISCREDIT those
individuals
and CONCEAL
potentially criminal wrongdoing
by the SBU administration, employees, or
supporters.
Yes/No
i) The illegal use of
ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITY to discuss or distribute (without
the student's authorization) the confidential
academic, medical, or personal
RECORDS
of a SBU student with a student's employer(s),
friends or coworkers, church personnel, deacons,
church members, or other unauthorized individuals.
Yes/No
j) The illegal use of
ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITY to discuss or
DISTRIBUTE FALSE,
fabricated, misleading or incomplete
INFORMATION
or documentation about a student with the student's
employer(s), friends or coworkers, church personnel,
church members, deacons, or other unauthorized
individuals with the intent of discrediting, defaming
or DEFRAUDING a
student.
Yes/No
k) The searching and
intentional VANDALIZATION
of a student's room and personal belongings for the
purpose of debasing the student and FORCING
the student to leave the University.
Yes/No
l) The
PHYSICAL MENACING,
harassment,
coercion, hazing, or
INJURY of a student
or
other individual(s) -- both on and off campus.
Yes/No
m) Complicity or participation
in the recurrent,
prolonged and PREDATORY SEXUAL HARASSMENT
and defamation of students (even AFTER
the
students left the SBU campus).
Yes/No
n) The persistent or
retaliatory use of defamatory,
incendiary, or demeaning terms by the SBU
staff, faculty, and administration, such as:
*"CRAZY" -- a person
who disagrees with the
SBU administration, staff, or policies;
*"DEMONIC" or
"demon-possessed" -- a person
who is ill or who has experienced health problems;
*"HEATHEN" -- a
student or other person who
does not currently attend church;
*"LIAR" -- a person,
particularly a student,
who expresses opinions which threaten the
"status quo" or are different from those of
the SBU administration, staff, or associates;
*"MOOCHER" -- a
person who accepts hospitality
from a Christian or who asks for assistance from a
church or church-related organization during a crisis;
*"N****R" -- a
black or dark-skinned person;
*"N****R-LOVER"
-- someone who has friends
who are black or dark-skinned;
*"PAGAN" -- a
non-Baptist Christian or a member
of any other religious community.
*"W***E" -- virtually
any unmarried woman,
virgin or not, or a divorced women;
*"PERVERT" -- a
person who has experienced
sexual confusion or abuse, is or was sexually active,
or anyone who cares about or associates with
such persons;
*"PROBLEM STUDENT" --
a student who
disturbs the normal routine by expressing new
viewpoints or challenging the SBU administration,
staff, or associates;
*"PSYCHO" -- a
student or other person who
causes the SBU staff, administration, or associates
to be inconvenienced;
*"QUEER" -- an
effeminate male or an unmarried
female, esp. one who is not dating or is not sexually
active, or a person who was reluctant to take part in
unseemly or coarse joking and discussions or would
not submit to groping or molestation by the SBU
administrative staff.
*"ROGUE CHRISTIAN"
-- a Christian who, due
to severe disability or health problems, is unable
to attend church.
Yes/No
o) Complicity or participation
in the use of
ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITY to
PROPAGATE
malicious and unfounded rumors and FALSE
ACCUSATIONS (which resulted in profound
disruption to the student's family, social,
financial, emotional, academic, and spiritual
life) in an attempt to SHIELD
SBU from LEGAL
LIABILITY and potential
embarrassment in
the previous and now-acknowledged SEXUAL
MISCONDUCT of several SBU staff and
administrators.
Yes/No
p) The persistent misleading
and conscious
DECEIT of University
officials resulting in
SUBSTANTIAL and
REPEATED physical,
psychological, emotional or spiritual
HARM
to other individuals.
Yes/No
Question 3 (16 parts, a - p)
3. If an SBU instructor,
administrator, employee,
or supporter had engaged in any of the above illegal
or unethical activities, in your opinion, should
that individual qualify for SPECIAL TREATMENT
from Southwest Baptist University, the Missouri
or Southern Baptist Conventions, any governmental
agencies, institution or individuals (supporters,
Trustees, Regents, or contributors) associated
with Southwest Baptist University in the form of:
promotions, tenure, pay raises, special bonuses
("housing allowances," etc.), ceremonial awards
or recognition (Life Beautiful Award, career
achievement award, etc.), political or church-
related positions, financial remuneration and
gratuities, or any other considerations?
Please answer Yes/No to the above 16 items (a -
p)
in Question 2.
Question 4
4. If a SBU administrator,
member of the faculty
or staff, or other SBU employee or associate were
found to have committed an illegal or unethical
offense against a student, in your opinion, does the
SBU GOVERNANCE bare
the ethical RESPONSIBILITY
for reconciling the situation by determining suitable
and timely disciplinary action against the employee
or associate and providing amends or compensation
for the wronged student?
Yes/No
Question 5
5. If a SBU administrator,
member of the faculty
or staff, or other SBU employee or associate were
found to have committed an illegal or unethical
offense against a student, in your opinion, during
what TIME FRAME
should the governance of
Southwest Baptist University provide the student
with an apology, compensation, amends, correction
of the student's record, restitution, reconciliation,
or other appropriate response?
Please indicate Yes to
one of the
following (a - l):
a) within one day
b) within one week
c) within one month
d) within six months
e) within one year
f) within two years
h) within five years
i) within ten years
j) within twenty or more years
k) not until the student dies
l) SBU has no ethical obligation to apologize
or offer amends for the criminal or unethical
conduct of its employees, officials, or associates.
Question 6
6. In your opinion, if
the SBU administration and
governance, having been alerted on numerous
occasions of the possible illegal or unethical conduct
of a SBU administrator, member of the faculty or staff,
or other SBU employee or associate, failed to take
substantive and decisive action to rectify the situation
and prevent further incidents in the future, would
this indicate the failure of administrative authority
and precipitate the
REEVALUATION of
the legitimacy,
effectiveness, and
INTEGRITY of the
SBU governance?
Yes/No
Question 7 (3 parts, a - c)
a) In your opinion, are
the SBU Trustees and the members
of the leadership of the Missouri Baptist Convention
(which owns SBU), as individuals,
LEGALLY,
MORALLY,
and FINANCIALLY
liable for the administrative policies
and activities of Southwest Baptist University and its
employees and agents?
Yes/No
b) As a member of the
SBU staff or administration,
do you condone (or have you ever condoned)
the use of
SLANDER,
INTIMIDATION, physical
assault or VIOLENCE
against any individuals
who disagree with the policies or behavior
of SBU personnel?
Yes/No
c) Do you believe that
the CAREER,
REPUTATION,
HEALTH, or
LIFE of any individual
should be
FORFEITED in order
to COVER the illegal,
fraudulent,
and/or potentially costly or embarrassing misconduct
of the officials, employees, or associates of Southwest
Baptist University, or the Missouri and Southern Baptist
Conventions?
Yes/No
Continued in ...
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The SBU "QUESTIONS OF THE HEART" PETITION
Part 1: The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
Section A: ~Southwest Baptist University and The Law~
Questions 1-33 (Sections A, B, and C)
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3/7 WOUNDED
HEARTS: Questions Part 1 (Section A-2)
*A-2* Definition of Terms -- Predatory Harassment,
Sexual Harassment, and Defamation
(Questions 8 a - i)
and
4/7 WOUNDED
HEARTS: Questions Part 1 (Section A-3)
*A-3* Definition of Terms -- Predatory Harassment,
Sexual Harassment, and Defamation
(Questions 8 remainder
of j - p)
and
5/7 WOUNDED
HEARTS: Questions Part 1 (Section A-4)
*A-4* Definition of Terms -- Predatory Harassment,
Sexual Harassment, and Defamation
(Questions 8 remainder of q - v, 9 and 10)
and
6/7
WOUNDED HEARTS: SBU "Questions" Part 1 (Section B)
Section B:
~The Government and The Law~ (Questions 11-24)
and
7/7
WOUNDED HEARTS: SBU "Questions" Part 1 (Section C)
Section C:
~Ethics, The Church and the Law~ (Questions 25-33)
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