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Is it OK for Christian schools to expel students who come out as homosexual?
at Southwestern Christian University, Christian Minard was one semester shy of graduation when she was expelled after school officials learned that she had married her same-sex partner. The university required students to sign a “lifestyle covenant” prohibiting, among other things, “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) behavior or acts.” The school argued that students are expelled for violating a variety of infractions that are prohibited in the lifestyle covenant, including cursing, drinking, and smoking. But according to Minard, “Students violate parts of [the lifestyle] covenant all the time, but they don’t get expelled. I didn’t even get a hearing.” The report details five other stories similar to Minard’s. “Religious universities and colleges can and should work out the full expressions of their faiths without creating oppressive campus climates for LGBT students,” former LGBT Biola student Jason Brown, who aided the HRC in drafting the report, tells Newsweek. “The reality is that many students attending Christian colleges are not yet open with their families about being LGBT. Being at religious colleges may also be important to them, because the schools reflect their own faith backgrounds, but coming out comes with repercussions at home and at college because of the Title IX exemptions.” |
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Is it OK for Christian schools to expel students who come out as homosexual?