Several colleges and universities are threatening to resign from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities if two other members are not held accountable for their same-sex policies.
The Council has promised to address the issue of Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College, which are hiring faculty and staff involved in same-sex marriages.
Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy says some members want something done soon because they expect the Council to "uphold basic Christian teachings."
Oklahoma Wesleyan University has dropped its membership in the Council, citing a lack of action by the CCCU.
"CCCU's ambivalence in deciding the status of two member institutions that have advised CCCU they will permit same-sex couples to be employed as faculty members indicates to us that it is time for our university to move in a different direction," Everett Piper, the president of the university, said in a statement, The Christian Post reported.
The cohesion and existence of the Council is being threatened, Tooley tells OneNewsNow, because the purpose of the Council is to create a community for evangelical Christian colleges and universities.
"And if it fails to continue to be specifically evangelical Christian," he warns, "then inevitably there's going to be a division or schism within its community."
The Christan Post story reported that Union College, in Tenneessee, dropped its membership in CCCU because "faithfulness to the authority of Scripture takes precedence."
