{"id":3611,"date":"2015-03-18T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/18\/affirm-all-college-students\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:31:03","slug":"affirm-all-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/affirm-all-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirm all college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/scott-henderson-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17076 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/scott-henderson-small.jpg\" alt=\"scott-henderson-small\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 170px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 170\/225;\" \/><\/a>South Carolina, including the Upstate, is home to many fine colleges and universities that have provided leadership, guidance and inspiration to their communities. This is certainly true for Erskine College.\u00a0 But when the Erskine Board of Trustees released a statement which concluded that sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage is not only \u201csinful\u201d but also \u201cdestructive\u201d to those who engage in it, it created news across the country. Furman education professor Scott Henderson weighed in on the issue in an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2015\/03\/15\/affirm-college-students\/70290164\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina, including the Upstate, is home to many fine colleges and universities that have provided leadership, guidance and inspiration to their communities. This is certainly true for Erskine College.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}