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1. OT, but of interest. Wheaton is one of the institutions that sued...
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 03:31 PM
Feb 2019

...over the Affordable Care Act, objecting to the contraceptives portion - even tho their existing insurance plans, prior to the ACA, already covered contraceptives. Very fundie school. Dancing was allowed in 1997. Their statement of Faith and Educational Purpose is interesting, to say the least: https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/statement-of-faith-and-educational-purpose/

Here is one of the statements from that page:

WE BELIEVE that God directly created Adam and Eve, the historical parents of the entire human race; and that they were created in His own image, distinct from all other living creatures, and in a state of original righteousness.


They have a strong biology/health sciences major. I would love to sit in on one of their Bio 101 classes and ask how Adam and Eve could have started the whole human race without either one of them or some of their offspring committing incest.

Wheaton is a member of the same athletic conference at the school both our sons attended - CArthage College, in Kenosha WI. Their soccer players were famous for embellishing on the field, attempting to get fouls called on their opponents. Which is that pesky little commandment about "Thou shalt not bear false witness"? I remember yelling out at one game, "Are all you guys drama majors or what?!" Nasty bunch of little fakers.


They recruited him to play lacrosse. They need to find a way to get him a helmet.

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