Northwestern Sex Toy Demonstration: Tennessee Church Refuses To Host NU Volunteers

A group of volunteers from Northwestern University, headed to Tennessee to spend their Spring Break building a nature trail, are suddenly without a place to stay for their trip.

The reason? Pastor Clifton Roth, of the Community Baptist Church in Hixson, Tennessee, picked up the March 3rd edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Pastor Roth had spoken to one of 14 students in the group, according to NBC Chicago, and had agreed to let the students camp on church property while volunteering.

But the next day, he picked up the paper and saw an article about a live sex-toy demonstration at Northwestern. A professor in a human sexuality class held an optional after-class session at which a woman demonstrated the pleasure of a device Professor J. Michael Bailey called the "fucksaw." Some were outraged; others saw it as proof of an open-minded student body. The Times Free Press had picked up an AP article about the controversy.

"I just felt the Lord wanted me to see that" article, Pastor Roth said to the Chicago Sun-Times.

When the student, Jenny Haag, called back to confirm their lodgings, the pastor told her that he couldn't have his church associated with Northwestern after the scandalous demo.

An Associated Press report describes Haag as "stunned by the turnaround." The students are entirely unaffiliated with the sexuality course, and are traveling as part of the university's Alternative Student Breaks program, where students voluntarily choose to spend their vacations on service projects around the country.

Comments

[Xacomo]

10:56 PM on 05/09/2011

I heard he went and bought a saw...

[Philip DeVon]

10:59 AM on 04/11/2011

what a crock

[Herkv]

04:58 PM on 04/10/2011

Give me that old-time religion. You know - the one with the temple prostitutes . . .

[HerodotusWept]

04:32 PM on 04/11/2011

They were actually known as Venereal Temples (temples to the goddess Venus), which, well, you can guess where the other association comes from :)

I have a feeling that the Catholics would get a lot more donations if church tithing had the same rewards tho...

[tpondering]

10:28 AM on 04/10/2011

Didn't Jesus get judged for being around prostitutes and tax collectors? Perhaps this guy doesn't aspire to be like Jesus.

[healthanalyst]

02:07 PM on 04/11/2011

He's Baptist, its all money and hypocrisy.

[HerodotusWept]

04:33 PM on 04/11/2011

And getting caught soliciting a member of the same gender, of course.

[paulwl]

09:40 AM on 04/10/2011

This bigot calls himself a Christian? Guilty by 'near-by' association? It seems religions in the western world wants to 'control' and dictate behavior like the fanatics in the eastern(old) world.
Yep folks, a civil war in the U.S. is about to become OPEN WAR...again. The last thing old people(so-called religious, non-thinking/small-minded) need to do is to make their future care-takers of young folk their 'enemy'!

[sushi27]

06:27 AM on 04/10/2011

We refuse to allow college students doing FREE volunteer work in Tennessee on our property, unless the college they go to has only Christian approved classes, lol. Maybe all future volunteer projects should steer far away from Tennessee.

[healthanalyst]

02:10 PM on 04/11/2011

Well maybe they could build an ark for him...

[jbeach]

11:24 PM on 04/09/2011

Sorry, Jesus. No room in the hotel or the stable; someone from your same college used a sex toy.

[kbkbk]

09:46 PM on 04/09/2011

Spring break was over 2 weeks ago for Northwestern and Huff Post is reporting this like it happened yesterday. What gives....?

[hattrick752]

09:41 PM on 04/09/2011

He is jealous...

[Deep Thinking Man]

03:51 PM on 04/09/2011

pious bugger...ain't he ???????

[HotheadPaisen]

03:45 PM on 04/09/2011

"I just felt the Lord wanted me to see that" article, Pastor Roth said."

Maybe the Lord wanted you to feel ok and graduate from your hoover to the shop-vac you keep thinking about.

[yetiwatcher]

05:09 AM on 04/09/2011

because those 14 students on the trip to TN are responsible for everything that goes on at Northwestern, right pastor?

[Howard53545]

04:04 AM on 04/09/2011

Blow Back

[Claudette McCubbin]

12:16 AM on 04/09/2011

Did anyone even notice that said students that were going to camp did not have ANYTHING to do with the sex demos?

[EmmaDarian]

08:56 AM on 04/09/2011

Yes, and if you click through to the Sun-Times article, the pastor knows it too and says that the students are guilty by association.

[HotheadPaisen]

03:42 PM on 04/09/2011

He thinks guilt by association is fine until someone wants to punish the 'good' pastor for the actions of Westboro, Terry Jones...youknow...

[shadowgov]

12:14 AM on 04/09/2011

BTW... Pastor Clifton Roth....we know you masturbate too! ....You dirty boy.