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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has long been one of the best evangelical campus ministries, cultivating the Christian faith along with the life of the mind. \u00a0I had heard that it was slipping to the liberal side, but the organization has told its 1,300 staffers that they must support its statement on sexuality (that sex is only for heterosexual\u00a0marriage), or they will be asked to leave. \u00a0Expect controversy to ensue.<\/p>\n

From Elizabeth Dias,\u00a0Top Evangelical College Group to Dismiss Employees Who Support Gay Marriage | TIME<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the largest evangelical organizations on college campuses nationwide has told its 1,300 staff members they will be fired if they personally support gay marriage or otherwise disagree with its newly detailed positions on sexuality starting on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA says it will start a process for \u201cinvoluntary terminations\u201d for any staffer who comes forward to disagree with its positions on human sexuality, which hold that any sexual activity outside of a husband and wife is immoral.<\/p>\n

Staffers are not being required to sign a document agreeing with the group\u2019s position, and supervisors are not proactively asking employees to verbally affirm it. Instead, staffers are being asked to come forward voluntarily if they disagree with the theological position. When they inform their supervisor of their disagreement, a two-week period is triggered, concluding in their last day. InterVarsity has offered to cover outplacement service costs for one month after employment ends to help dismissed staff with their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and job-search strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe internally categorize these as involuntary terminations due to misalignment with InterVarsity ministry principles, which is a category we use for people who leave for theological and philosophy of ministry disagreements,\u201d Greg Jao, an InterVarsity vice president and director of campus engagement, told TIME in an email. \u201cOur goal is not to go, \u2018Oh we want you to do the dirty work of firing yourself.\u2019 I think our thing is, if you are in disagreement, then we are going to ask you, with integrity, to identify that and leave,\u201d he added in an interview.<\/p>\n

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