WACO, Texas — A Baylor University alumnus has been removed from an advisory board for the Baptist university’s business school because he is gay. Terry Maness, dean of the Hankamer School of Business at the Waco, Texas, university, said he asked Tim Smith, 44, to step down “because of his alternative lifestyle.”
“We must be sensitive to the position of our affiliated denomination, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which has, on previous occasions, stated that a homosexual lifestyle is incompatible with most Baptist interpretations of Scripture,” Maness said in a written statement Nov. 3. Smith, an entrepreneur who has donated more than $65,000 to Baylor, told the San Antonio Express-News that the decision disappointed him.
The 1983 Baylor graduate, who has a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., often lectured in entrepreneurial business classes at Baylor and had served on the advisory board for four years, the Express-News reported.
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