Source: Nationalreview.com.
USA – The chaplain at the Memphis-based Rhodes College tried to organize a “BDSM 101” event on campus featuring a local dominatrix, but the event was swiftly canceled by the college.
“Chaplain Beatrix will host a local dominatrix to share wisdom on how to safely, sanely, and consensually learn about bondage, discipline/domination, sadism/submission, and masochism,” a description for the event said, according to screenshots of Instagram stories from the chaplain, Beatrix Weil, obtained by National Review. “There will be an option to ask questions anonymously.”
The event, posted on Friday, was scheduled to be held in the Interfaith Lounge on Wednesday but as instead canceled by the school on Friday afternoon, hours after Weil began advertising it.
Weil doesn’t lead any worship services, but functions as a faith adviser to Christians, Muslims, and Jews on campus, a current Rhodes student told National Review. Weil was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian church in 2017. Rhodes is affiliated with the Presbyterian church, according to its website.
The college directs visitors to the website interested in religious vocation to “set up an appointment with Chaplain Beatrix to discuss PC(USA) leadership opportunities such as serving as an elder, attending seminary or divinity school, exploring the ordination process, or finding an internship in the PC(USA).”
Last Monday, Weil hosted the same dominatrix to speak to her first-year seminar, titled “Let’s Talk About Sex.”
“It’s basically a sex class,” the student said. “The class wasn’t mandatory but it fulfilled a mandatory prerequisite that you have to take.”
In a Friday email obtained by National Review inviting alumni of the class to attend the BDSM event, Weil noted, “My lovely guest visited our FYS class on Monday and it went really well!”
“It went so well that I’ve had my first angry parent phone call to the President’s Office because of it,” she added. “It took 6 years of working at this school, but hello, I’ve finally *made it*.”
Asked for comment, a Rhodes spokesperson said, “The proposed event was cancelled Friday as soon as it came to our attention. It was not a college-sanctioned event. No such event is planned for our campus.”
The Instagram account for the Rhodes chaplain includes a photo of Weil posing at the local Pride parade in June with two Blue Suede Sisters, an order of clown drag nuns “whose mission is to spread universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilty.” Jennifer Collins, the president of Rhodes, is also seen in a photo at the celebration. The Instagram account also follows many pro-Palestinian influencers.
Weil did not immediately respond to request for comment.
“As a person of faith on campus, I was appalled to see the Chaplain promote such acts that are obviously incongruent with the faith she supposedly represents,” the student said. “To desecrate the Inter-Faith Lounge — used by practicing Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. — as a playground for sexual pleasure is reprehensible.”
