College proposal sounds like a divorce

I find it interesting that the use of the "divorce metaphor" for describing current events taking place between North Carolina Baptist colleges and the Baptist State Convention, has riled some folks. Perhaps they should reconsider the term. It may be a very good description of the situation. In a divorce there is the breaking of a legal, long standing relationship. That is exactly what the colleges are requesting.

Second, the colleges are still asking for custody of the children. They want the legal ties to be cut but the children to visit. That takes place in a divorce too.

Third, they want the Baptist State Convention to pay alimony payments in the form of continued financial support for the students. Once again, it sounds like a divorce to me.

Over the years, I have found that in North Carolina Baptist life, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, someone in leadership will say: "Oh, it's really not a duck."

Bruce Martin

Fayetteville, N.C.