Pensacola Christian College...Remember the Saudi's Fire-Safety Rules?

[the_ignored]

Well, it turns out that in the good ol' USA there are christians who are just as far gone as those Saudi guys who made those women go back into a burning building because of their attire?

PCC's attitude:

One night during her convalescence there was a fire drill.  Cassie was still on the 5th floor of the dorm, even though the Residence Manager and the Dean’s office knew that she could barely walk let alone descend and re-climb stairs. Her roommates were literally forced to carry her. Of course PCC isn’t known for really caring much about fire safety anyway. For years the rule has remained on the books that all female students must be in “proper” attire before they leave their rooms for a fire drill. If you happen to be sleeping in pajama pants, you must take the time to put on a skirt before you try to escape the flames. If you should perish then at least you’ll know you died for the cause of not tempting the fire fighters to lust after you.

Finally, after trying to tough it out and even trying to go back to class, my future wife had taken all she could bear. She told the dean’s office that she was leaving and they cut up her ID card, the final act of withdrawing from the college.

Also from The Friendly Atheist.

[Dynamic Dragon]

What horrid assholes.  At least these people aren't mainstream.

[ironbite]

All it'll take is one student killed in a fire for this place to be shut down.

Ironbite-what assholes.

[Barbarella]

I do find it awesome that she basically told them to "Take this school & SHOVE IT!", afterwards. You go, girl!

That said, those guys are pure stupid!

[Meshakhad]

Fuck that place.

[RavynousHunter]

I...

[Some random Homo sapiens]

Some people are just a bunch of morons who are so stupid that you have to wonder how they managed to survive until now. Then, there are these people who are laughed at by the aforementioned ones because of their stupidity.

[Katsuro]

I'm pretty sure having a policy like that in UK would be a violation of Health and Saftey laws and therefore would be illegal.

How are they allowed to have thise policy?

[erictheblue]

How are they allowed to have thise policy?

"My religion says..."

It's possible the restrictions would fail safety codes if anyone ever actually challenged them in court. However, someone with standing has to challenge them in court first. And since the people with standing would be people who chose to go to that college, they would know the policy and would be less likely to challenge it later.