Gay Student Sanctioned for Offensive E-mails
Damages were settled Friday against a former Baylor University seminary student who sent offensive e-mails to school officials following the loss of his scholarship
Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2005

Damages were settled Friday against a former Baylor University seminary student who sent offensive e-mails to school officials following the loss of his scholarship.

James Matthew Bass, 25, was a student at Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary until late 2003, when administrators revoked his scholarship after learning that he is gay, according to Waco Tribune-Herald.

No longer able to afford the tuition, Bass withdrew from the largest private institution in Texas.

According to the Baylor lawsuit filed Jan. 19, school employees, including President Robert Sloan, received a series of e-mails allegedly sent from someone with a Baylor-affiliated e-mail address, said Houston Voice(HV) in Jan.

Some 1000 “highly offensive” e-mails sent to 50 Baylor employees and their families included sexually explicit comments, racial epithets, and a false obituary for a Baylor administrator who is still alive.

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