North Carolina police officer fired for following the 'Billy Graham Rule,' lawsuit says

[Deleted User 276]

"Manuel Torres, 51, worked as a deputy for the Lee County Sheriff for five years when his boss asked him to train a female deputy in July 2017. Torres requested a religious accommodation, the suit alleges, saying he “holds the strong and sincere religious belief that the Holy Bible prohibits him, as a married man, from being alone for extended periods with a female who is not his wife.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no ... d_nn_tw_ma

[Della]

Damn.

[AllofFive19]

If his job requires him to train newbies they were right to fire him. It's not reasonable for him to expect the police department and city to pay for someone to chaperone him while he does his job.

[Deleted User 1344]

There’s something wrong with that whole idea. Did Billy Graham assume that any women who is alone with any man will be so appealing that the man wouldn’t be able to restrain himself? That men are all sexual predators? Uncontrollable?
Well he’s wrong.
I have never respected or believed Graham( or his son)

[hockeymom87]

There’s something wrong with that whole idea. Did Billy Graham assume that any women who is alone with any man will be so appealing that the man wouldn’t be able to restrain himself? That men are all sexual predators? Uncontrollable?
Well he’s wrong.
I have never respected or believed Graham( or his son)

I think it was more to protect themselves. If they’re not alone with a female then they can’t get falsely accused of something. My husband won’t be alone with female interns because he doesn’t really know them well. He did go to DC with a group of interns(about 8 of them 3 were female) but the other team leader was a woman so she went as well since his company always send both genders when the interns are both.

[Deleted User 276]

There’s something wrong with that whole idea. Did Billy Graham assume that any women who is alone with any man will be so appealing that the man wouldn’t be able to restrain himself? That men are all sexual predators? Uncontrollable?
Well he’s wrong.
I have never respected or believed Graham( or his son)

The "rule" came out of the Modesto Meeting - a meeting of Graham and several of his evangelical friends.

"One afternoon during the Modesto meetings, I called the team together to discuss the problem. Then I asked them to go to their rooms for an hour and list all the problems they could think of that evangelists and evangelism encountered."

"[2. Sexual Immorality]

The second item on the list was the danger of sexual immorality. We all knew of evangelists who had fallen into immorality while separated from their families by travel. We pledged among ourselves to avoid any situation that would have even the appearance of compromise or suspicion. From that day on, I did not travel, meet or eat alone with a woman other than my wife. We determined that the Apostle Paul’s mandate to the young pastor Timothy would be ours as well: “Flee . . . youthful lusts” (2 Timothy 1:22, KJV)."

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blog ... come-from/

[Deleted User 1344]

There’s something wrong with that whole idea. Did Billy Graham assume that any women who is alone with any man will be so appealing that the man wouldn’t be able to restrain himself? That men are all sexual predators? Uncontrollable?
Well he’s wrong.
I have never respected or believed Graham( or his son)

The "rule" came out of the Modesto Meeting - a meeting of Graham and several of his evangelical friends.

"One afternoon during the Modesto meetings, I called the team together to discuss the problem. Then I asked them to go to their rooms for an hour and list all the problems they could think of that evangelists and evangelism encountered."

"[2. Sexual Immorality]

The second item on the list was the danger of sexual immorality. We all knew of evangelists who had fallen into immorality while separated from their families by travel. We pledged among ourselves to avoid any situation that would have even the appearance of compromise or suspicion. From that day on, I did not travel, meet or eat alone with a woman other than my wife. We determined that the Apostle Paul’s mandate to the young pastor Timothy would be ours as well: “Flee . . . youthful lusts” (2 Timothy 1:22, KJV)."

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blog ... come-from/

Thanks for the information.