Editor’s Note: The following first appeared at Bad Faith Media on March 20, 1992.
Waco, TX—Baylor University announced on Friday the cancellation of an event featuring Jeffrey Dahmer after university officials discovered that the infamous cannibal is gay. The event was scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, at Waco Hall. It was sponsored by an official campus student group, Students Interested in Cannibalism (SIC).
In a press release, the spokesperson cited Baylor’s Statement on Human Sexuality as the reason for its decision. “Baylor affirms the biblical norm of purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman,” the spokesperson said. “Temptations to deviate from this norm include both heterosexual and homosexual behavior.”
The statement noted that “although cannibalism is not widely accepted as appropriate human behavior, Baylor stands on the principle of academic freedom and allows student organizations to invite thinkers from a wide range of perspectives to come to campus and participate in the free exchange of ideas.”
According to the press release, one key exception to this is “gay stuff.”
It has been reported that Baylor’s Board of Regents pressured the university to cancel the event after learning Dahmer had “unrepentant sex with men.”
Baylor first came under scrutiny in 1987 when it approved SIC’s charter as an official student group. In an interview with Bad Faith Media after the organization was approved, SIC’s founding president, Toliver Dintz, said it was an “awesome win for the cause of freedom.”
“SIC doesn’t advocate for cannibalism,” Dintz noted. “We just believe that students who are interested in it should have a place to discuss their ideas.”
Dintz, however, supported the university’s decision. “We had heard rumors that Dahmer struggled with same-sex attraction,” he said. “We just didn’t know he was morally depraved enough to act on it.”
During its first few years as a student group, SIC became known for setting up tables on campus with signs that read, “Cannibalism is biblical. Prove me wrong!” Their members, mostly comprised of senior business majors, would invite freshmen international students to debate them.
SIC’s arguments centered around their belief in the inerrancy of Scripture and its application to John 6:53 — “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.’”
“It’s an unorthodox reading of Scripture, to be sure,” a Baylor spokesperson said at the time. “But we trust our students, in consultation with their Baylor advisors, to exercise their God-given intellectual abilities in participating in the free exchange of ideas.”
“Unless, of course,” the spokesperson added, “those ideas are gay. We have to draw a line somewhere.”
Rustle S’more lives in Boise, Idaho, where he researches Trump Derangement Syndrome in the members of his household. S’more lives alone and enjoys making recipes from the latest edition of his church’s cookbook, which was published in 1978.