How do you feel about baptisms at college football practice?

[chollybocker]

39. He's free to baptize himself till his skin gets all pruney.

And his willing coach and kowtowing teammates can accompany him down to the local river, or their favorite church, to get their freak on.

But Clemson is, by definition, a secular institution. It accepts state funding and is therefore bound by those rules.


From the Secular Student Alliance at Clemson:

"The holding of a Christian baptism at a state-owned facility by what appears to be a state employee is an affront to the secular values on which this nation is founded. Through his actions, Jeff Scott — a coach at Clemson University — the Clemson football program, and Clemson University as a whole are effectively endorsing Christianity. As both a tuition-paying Clemson student and tax-paying resident of South Carolina, I find this action extremely insulting. This is disrespectful to both the non-Christian members of the Clemson community and the residents of this great state. The Secular Student Alliance of Clemson condemns this state-supported baptism as an affront to the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution."