MISSOURI BAPTIST HEART OF INTEGRITY QUESTIONS
The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
(SECTIONS A, B and C)
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Section C:
~Ethics, The Church, and the Law~
(Questions 23-31)
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Question 23
23. Did you participate in or are you aware of any occurrence in which false, deceptive, fraudulent, or misleading verbal information or documentation was given to any AGENT of any CHURCH-RELATED ORGANIZATION including, but not limited to: the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance, the Polk County Community Center, Springfield Council of Churches (Missouri), the Mid-Lakes Baptist Association (Bolivar, Missouri), the First Baptist Churches of Bolivar and Springfield (Missouri) and Newport News (Virginia), Second Baptist Church of Springfield (Missouri), First Assembly of God Church of Bolivar (Missouri), United Methodist Church of Bolivar (Missouri), the Missouri Baptist Convention, and the Southern Baptist Convention (Nashville, TN).
Yes/No
Question 24
24. Do you have knowledge of any effort by the Missouri or Southern Baptist leadership or by individual PASTORS associated with SBU to exert RELIGIOUS or POLITICAL influence and INTERVENTION in an attempt to thwart, deter, confuse, or interfere with a civil or criminal investigation of employees or supporters of Southwest Baptist University , the Missouri Baptist Convention, or Campbell Pest Control?
Yes/No
Question 25 (a - l, 12 parts)
25. Did you participate in or do you have any knowledge of any INCIDENTS in which pastors, church officials, leaders or employees, deacons, or other church agents associated with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Missouri Baptist Convention engaged in, supported, or encourage the following UNETHICAL OR CRIMINAL CONDUCT AGAINST ANY INDIVIDUAL who had made CRIMINAL or CIVIL COMPLAINT against the officials, employees, associates, or agents of Southwest Baptist University, the Missouri or Southern Baptist officials, or employees:
a) The DENIAL of CHURCH MEMBERSHIP or Christian FELLOWSHIP to a SBU student or other individuals.
Yes/No
b) The DENIAL of CHURCH MEMBERSHIP or Christian FELLOWSHIP to the FRIENDS or FAMILY members of a Southwest Baptist University student.
Yes/No
c) The DENIAL or OBSTRUCTION of COMMUNITY and CHURCH ASSISTANCE to a Southwest Baptist University student.
Yes/No
d) The DENIAL or OBSTRUCTION of COMMUNITY and CHURCH ASSISTANCE to FRIENDS or FAMILY MEMBERS of a student.
Yes/No
e) The use of PASTORAL AUTHORITY and prestige to INCITE and FOSTER pernicious ILL-WILL and hostility against a student, the students' family or friends, or other individuals with the purpose of conspiring to DEFRAUD a student or other individual.
Yes/No
f) The use of PASTORAL AUTHORITY and prestige to INCITE and FOSTER pernicious ILL-WILL among other NON-BAPTIST PASTORS to DENY CHURCH FELLOWSHIP or ASSISTANCE to a student or to the family or friends of a student with the purpose of conspiring to DEFRAUD a student or other individual.
Yes/No
g) The VIOLATION of PASTORAL ETHICS by the distribution to unauthorized persons of personal, medical, or other CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION about a student or other individual (or the family or friends of such individuals).
Yes/No
h) The VIOLATION of PASTORAL ETHICS by the distribution of false, misleading, fraudulent, incomplete, or DEFAMATORY INFORMATION against a student or other individual (or the family or friends of such individuals) with the intention of conspiring to DEFAME, DEFRAUD or INJURE the individual or attempt to conceal the unethical or criminal conduct of Southwest Baptist University employees, agents, and associates.
Yes/No
i) The ABUSE of CHURCH LEADERSHIP positions within the local church by Southwest Baptist University faculty, administration and legal staff to INCITE and NURTURE pernicious ILL-WILL and hostility against a student (or student's family or friends) with the purpose of conspiring to DEFAME, DEFRAUD, or INJURE a student or other individual or attempt to conceal the unethical or criminal conduct of SBU employees, agents, and associates.
Yes/No
j) The ABUSE of CHURCH LEADERSHIP positions within local churches by Southwest Baptist University administration, faculty, associates, and legal staff to distribute false, misleading, fraudulent, incomplete, or DEFAMATORY INFORMATION with the purpose of DEFRAUDING a student or other individual and attempting to conceal the unethical or criminal conduct of SBU employees, agents, and associates.
Yes/No
k) The USE of INTIMIDATION and THREAT by Southern Baptist PASTORS associated with Southwest Baptist University against a student or the friends and family of a student (either verbal or written).
Yes/No
l) The COLLABORATION with local GOVERNMENT officials in an effort to deny a qualified individual CHURCH or COMMUNITY assistance in an effort to DEFRAUD, DEFAME, or INJURE that individual.
Yes/No
Question 26
26. If a pastor, church official, leader, employee, deacon or other agent associated with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Missouri Baptist Convention had acted in the manner described in Question 25 (a - l), in your opinion, would this be GROUNDS for the DISMISSAL or DISASSOCIATION from Southwest Baptist University or other substantial censure by the appropriate local church, Missouri Baptist Convention, or the Southern Baptist Convention?
Please answer Yes/No to each item a - l in Question 25.
Question 27
27. If a pastor, church official, leader or employee, deacon, or other church agent associated with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Missouri Baptist Convention engaged in any of the above illegal or unethical activities [described in Question 25 (a - l)], in your opinion, should that individual qualify for SPECIAL TREATMENT from Southwest Baptist University, the Missouri or Southern Baptist Conventions, any governmental agencies, institution or individuals (supporters, Trustees, Regents, or contributors) associated with Southwest Baptist University in the form of: promotions, tenure, pay raises, special bonuses ("housing allowances," etc.), ceremonial awards or recognition (Life Beautiful Award, career achievement award, etc.), political or church-related positions, financial remuneration and gratuities, or any other considerations?
Please answer Yes/No to each item a - l in Question 25.
Question 28
28. Did you participate in or are you aware of any effort by PASTORS and CHURCH-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS associated with Southwest Baptist University to DEFRAUD a pesticide-injured student by obstructing the student from obtaining medical, nutritional, or energy ASSISTANCE through local churches or charitable organizations by the distribution of slanderous and intentionally deceitful or misleading information and the COLLABORATION with PUBLIC OFFICIALS to menace, injure, and/or harass the student or the student's friends and family?
Yes/No
Question 29 (6 parts, a - f)
29. Did you participate in or are you aware of any specific instance(s) in which:
a) A Bolivar pastor (a SBU Trustee and prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) wrote a menacing letter to the friend of pesticide-injured student stating that he would "not tolerate" the friend praying for or discussing the pesticide- injured student in any church gathering, or "publicly broadcasting" information about the (possibly illegal) exposure of SBU students to dangerous pesticides and solvents or criticising SBU, or "the city, the state government, or any other institution?"
Yes/No
b) A SBU Trustee (a Southern Baptist pastor from Bolivar) organized a secret Deacons' Meeting, primarily attended by SBU employees and legal staff, to discuss a SBU student's civil and criminal complaint against various SBU employees and afterwards sent written notice to the student of the decision by the pastor and his deacons (without the benefit of a church vote) to deny the student church membership and fellowship?
Yes/No
c) A local Bolivar pastor (a SBU Trustee and prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) and other colleges and associates with the director of the POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER, disparaged and denigrated a pesticide-injured SBU student, and actively encouraged the Director to resist and DENY any efforts to obtain food, energy, medical, or fundraising ASSISTANCE for the student because, though financially qualified and verified as totally disabled by a panel of Social Security physicians, the student had "provoked" Southwest Baptist University by making civil and criminal complaints against SBU and "did not deserve" assistance?
Yes/No
d) A local Bolivar pastor (a SBU Trustee and prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) and other colleges and associates discussed the electrical bill of a student injured by pesticides at SBU with the manager of Empire District ELECTRIC COMPANY, disparaged and denigrated the student and COLLABORATED with him to resist and DENY any effort by the student (or the student's friends or family) to obtain ASSISTANCE paying the electrical bill because the student, though financially qualified and verified as totally disabled by a panel of Social Security physicians, had "provoked" Southwest Baptist University by making civil and criminal complaints against the university and, therefore, "did not deserve" assistance?
Yes/No
e) A Bolivar pastor (a SBU Trustee and prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) and other colleagues and associates urged the pastor and his Methodist congregation to DENY the student (who was disabled by pesticides at SBU) the $40 in financial ASSISTANCE, which the Methodist pastor had promised the student, on the grounds that the student was "undeserving" of Christian fellowship or financial assistance, because the student had "provoked" and affronted Southwest Baptist University by making civil and criminal complaints against the university?
Yes/No
f) The out-of-state "home" Southern Baptist pastor of a pesticide-disabled student (after conferring with a Bolivar pastor and SBU associates) indicated that if the student's widowed and disabled mother discussed the civil or criminal complaints against Southwest Baptist University or the exposure of SBU students to dangerous pesticides and solvents, and if her mother continued to support the student's efforts to return home or relocate, he, as the mother's pastor, would see to it that the members of his church refused fellowship, assistance, and support to the student's mother, family, and friends?
Yes/No
Question 30
30. Do you have knowledge of any unethical or illegal actions by any of the legal staff employed by or associated with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention or the Missouri Baptist Convention which, if pursued and reported to the Missouri Bar Association or any other government or regulating agency, would likely result in the loss of his or her license and the DISBARMENT of that individual from the practice of law?
Yes/No
Question 31
31. If an attorney employed by or associated with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Missouri Baptist Convention were found to have engaged in any illegal or unethical activities which defamed, defrauded, or resulted in substantial harm or injury to a student or employee of Southwest Baptist University, in your opinion, would this be GROUNDS for DISASSOCIATION or DISMISSAL from Southwest Baptist University?
Yes/No
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