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Minister predicts God raising fossil fuel haters at Baylor

by | Jun 3, 2019 | News | 0 comments

By Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)

Baylor University graduates who bowed their heads at their spring commencement ceremony heard a prayer denouncing fossil fuels and a world with too many white, straight men in positions in power.

The commencement prayer by church minister Dan Freemyer — himself a straight, white man — drew cheers from graduating students but has predictably been criticized for its politically-charged nature.

“This is appalling,” American Conservative writer Rod Dreher responded in an online commentary. “Whoever would have imagined that ‘straight white men’ would be denounced in prayer at a Baylor University graduation ceremony?”  

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Baylor, a private Christian university located in Fort Worth, is known as the largest Baptist university in the world with approximately 17,200 students on its 1,000-acre campus.

Freemyer, a Baylor graduate, is currently missional engagement pastor at Broadway Baptist Church, a “progressive” church also located in Forth Worth that describes itself as a “diverse community of faith” that welcomes different backgrounds and beliefs.

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