Quick comments about the rest of these rules:
Young men may call for their dates 30 minutes before church services begin.
Young men are not to call for their dates at the dormitory before Sunday School.
Dating couples are not to loiter after the church services in the auditorium, college building, academy, or near the dormitories.
OK, I don't exactly get these three rules. The first two seem needlessly formal (does the first mean no
more than 30 minutes prior, or no
less than?) And why the haste to get people away from the buildings?
- It means no more than, an attempt to stop young couples from turning Church Services into an extra date night. Same with Sunday School. There is nothing wrong with a young man saying hello and walking a young lady to her class, what they are trying to prevent is him walking her to her class 1.5 hours before it starts, thereby creating a date out of it. Also consider these rules are for dormitory students who do not have to drive to get there. They got up at 7, had breakfast, now they have 2 hours before class starts. Same with loitering. They are not talking about 5, 10, 15 minutes of exchanging pleasantries after church, they are talking about the dating couples who are hanging on and somone has to kick them out so they can shut the lights off in the auditorium.
It's like the Powers That Be are saying, "OK, if you want to date, you can see each other at church. . . . OK, you've had your fun, you crazy kids, now get out."
There are no dating privileges for soul-winning or church ministries.
Not sure what this even means. If you see each other while on church ministry business, it doesn't count as a date?
- No, it means you cant turn visitation into date night. Remember I said in an earlier post this is not mature young people, these are rules for immature young people who would use visitation as an excuse to simply spend more time together with no thought of spiritual service.
Ladies are not permitted to ride in a car with men unless permission has been granted by the Administration.
Fair enough.
Couples are not to be together without prior administrative approval on Saturdays before lunch or on Sunday afternoons.
Why not? Since it's the weekend, I assume it's free time. (Or not-so-free time, by the look of it.)
- It is free time, but hanging out with your date without approval is the problem.
On college-wide activities, dating couples must remain in the presence of a third person at all times.
Fair enough.
Students are not allowed to date Temple Baptist Academy students prior to their junior or senior year in high school.
Fair enough.
Students who serve in the youth ministry of Temple Baptist Church are not allowed to date teens in that youth group.
Not only a good rule, but one that could be taken farther. If you are old and mature enough to be in a position of leadership in a youth ministry, you probably shouldn't be dating
any youth, whether in or out fo your particular group. That's just creepy.
Interracial dating must be approved in writing and verbally by the parents of both students.
This satanic idiocy has already been adequately discussed.
Dorm students my not date an off-campus student or someone who is not a Crown College student.
So am I allowed to still have a girl back home, or will she be receiving an official Dear John letter on school letterhead?
- Not sure where this one is headed. I will say this, there is an adage "the students write the rules", in other words rules get written in response to problems that arise. Often rules written to address a specific issue that no longer exists fail to get dropped and you get a bloated book of odd rules.
) They have been ingrained with a moral code and have been making most of their decisions/consequences since they began their teen years.
