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Calvin College agrees to study faculty limits on gay-rights advocacy: A matter of academic freedom

A controversial memo at Calvin College, which was adopted in May and publicly surfaced in August, said it is unacceptable for Calvin faculty and staff to teach, write or advocate counter to Christian Reformed Church policies on homosexuality.

The board of trustees had affirmed a 2008 statement backing the college’s commitment to the denomination’s tenets on homosexuality: the practice is sinful, but the orientation is not.