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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 15 Sep 1997.
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San Francisco Theological Seminary in Cal.

San Francisco Theological Seminary in Cal.

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 15 Sep 1997
        The following story is what I had suffered in Presbyterian 
Seminary (San Francicsco Theological Seminary) in San Anselmo, 
California.  ( tel : 415-258-6500,  fax : 415-258-1608 ) Dean : White.

        I am sharing with you in the hope that no other man will be 
victimized again for the shortage  of the knowledge.  
       In this entire process, I have striven to maintain justice of 
what I regard as true faith.

       From the beginning of my Exploration in Ministry (EIM) group 
at the Seminary, I  became concerned about  a classmate who  was 
gradually dying,  I thought as  a result  of practicing  habitual 
homo sex.   (That is,  he was afflicted with  the virus  that 
frequently leads to  AIDS, which  is not, I understand, per se a 
consequence of homosexual behavior.)

        I tried in many different ways to convert him, in the hope 
that this might lessen his vulnerability to  AIDS.  I prayed for him 
and tried to come to his house to offer a prayer for him there.   
I regarded this as a sincere concern for a fellow classmate. 
        The interim Dean (Davis) however ridiculed  my effort, even  
accusing me  of trying to be a street preacher out to insult gays.   

        Once,  after  our  EIM  group  was  threatened  by  this 
classmate's roommate drawing a knife, the  EIM group leader invited 
me to comment on the gay issues. I replied that true joy comes from 
physical pleasure received in accordance with spiritual joy; after 
all, we are intellectual humans.

        My gay classmate (Echert)  appreciated the truth I was 
attempting  to express.    However, it was not easy for  him, like 
most other gays, to  give up his habitual  homo sex, as I  believed 
he should have.   Instead he moved into Seminary housing,  rooming 
with another Seminary  gay, and support this move.

      Our next EIM group leader came with a background in a church 
with a majority of gays.  He was liberal and so encouraged a 
supportive ministry  to gays, smiling oddly on anyone who opposed 
this idea of Christian support for gays.  I received his evaluation 
at the end of the semester that "He is  far from the  immigration 
ministry  in the  country of  DOMINANT ANGLO CULTURE."    
     ( A grisly humiliation to me who is an Asian American Christian. ) 

       And my  security was  also being threatened  by another gay  
student who  has legal secretary background.

        I also  had to defend  Christianity when gay  students 
questioned  my motives and suggested that "there  is no evidence 
that Jesus was not a gay." 
Now I am a  quiet person.  But in the  face of such statements and 
events, I may have  given the impression  that I hate  gays and am  
out to terrify the people related  to them.  This may have been the 
impression especially of people with what I regard as lax judgment.

        One of those who kept this impression was Klav in the 
library.  He let gay students to  display a list of gay-favoring 
churches  in the library, to which I may  have shown my disagreement.  
I also questioned what was in the mind of the Dean who  also allowed 
such a dangerous slogan for many days in the center of future priests.

        Dr. SangKoo Lee said that  AIDS virus is not a strong virus 
since it keeps such a long period of potential time  before it 
becomes real disease.  There have been a few cases that the patients 
got well from AIDS 100% after they stopped homo sex, drugs, and  
alcohol.   He also added  that recent medical research shows that 
homo sex paralyzes human immune system.

        Klav became very reluctant to serve me in the library, and  
sometimes even hostile  toward me,  believing that  I was  out to  
terrify gays.   For instance, once when I  inquired about borrowing 
Lambdin's Hebrew grammar, he replied with an odd smile on his face,
"Someone else has taken it - you are not the only one at school."   

        Then his attempt to watch  my every step after a bunch of 
books went missing from the library began to  bother me so much 
that  I could  hardly stand to  be in the library any longer.   
       I endured  his unfair and hostile service  many times, with  
Christian patience, believing that time would resolve his prejudice 
toward me.

        But last September he provoked me once again, boldly, 
by intentionally, delaying to serve  me for several minutes, while 
he talked on the  phone.   He simply  ordered me  to  "squeeze the  
doll" (to  call other library staff), sending  me his hostile look, 
while  I waited and waited for him to get off the phone, as the 
class I was attending had already started.

        I became quite upset when  he told me "Do not come behind 
the desk," even when  I just continued  to wait patiently  outside.  
He simply told me "squeeze the  doll" (to call other library staff), 
sending me his hostile look, while I waited and waited for him to 
get off the phone, as the class I was attending had already started. 

        I finally decided that I was once again being made a fool 
of by him, and went behind the desk and took hold of him. This 
caused him to blurt out, "This God-damned  ()an is  attacking me."  
(he being  a buddhist.)   After I released him, he set about 
attacking me and left his fingernail on me.

        I was willing to take full responsibility of this incident 
since it was my fault losing my temper.  I accepted one month 
suspension.    Klav is a strange buddhist having many knife scars 
on his body.

        During my suspension, this incident was being talked about  
around the Seminary,  in exaggerated form, and  on the assumption  
that I alone was totally to blame.   At the same time, one student 
heard  from Klav that the gay group,  Dean, the  feminist students 
were the ones  making the incident bigger and bigger. 

        At the end of the month of suspension, Klav reported to his 
superior that I had shown up on the campus, which the case.
Pete, the librarian came down to the classroom and yelled at me to 
leave the school  because the  suspension  made a  dismissal.   
His  wife,  manager of bookstore, added  her witness  that I had  
come to the  school, breaking  the suspension five days  before it 
was due  to expire when I  came there to see school psychiatrist 
at school required by the Dean.

        I was  mystified as to what  really was on such  concern to 
Klav  and two Petes.   The  Dean gave  me another  suspension of  
another three months until the end of the semester despite that the
maximum period of seminary suspension should not run over one month.  
(I had to keep quiet since school is ruled by very prejudiced kind 
of people, and I did not think of a lawsuit because it is a shame 
of christian ethics.)

        After two times of consecutive suspension (including one 
illegal suspension) Dean  gave me another third  one for six month 
period until the beginning date of  next school year.  I  left a 
phone message to registrar's office that  I would remove my  name 
rather than accepting  that kind of  bad and mean illegal policy.  
(They counted it as my self-withdrawal and stopped my student 
status at that moment.)

        I applied for  new admission last year  (years after painful 
process of this incident.)  New Dean (White) said that my position 
is as free as all other new applicants.

        However,  admission director blocked my application again  
very shamelessy and unfairly.  
        
        I am looking for a good experienced lawyer.


                                              Sincerely yours in Christ,

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