(RNS) — Claire Murashima’s role as a gay stunt body print directly challenged the school’s theologil posns.
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- I AM CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT.
- CALV LGBTQ+ ALUMNI ADVOTE FOR A MORE WELG LLEGE AFTER GAY STAFF IS PHED OUT
- CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT PAV A PATH
- STUNT BODY PRINT AT CALV UNIVERSY COM OUT AS GAY
I AM CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT.
In the 102 years that Stunt Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay stunt body print. It’s beyond time that the LGBTQ muny is reprented the hight stunt learship posn at Calv. I’m proud to be the first. A few years ago, I never thought that I would be g out to... * calvin university gay *
What is Calv’s posn on homosexualy and same-sex marriage? That is to say, while affirmg that physil sexual timacy has s proper place the ntext of heterosexual marriage, we believe that homosexual orientatn is not a s, and we strive to love our gay, lbian, and bisexual stunts as ourselv, as God expects of . Some key aspects of the CRC’s and Calv’s unrstandg of homosexualy are:.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people - like all people - are created God's image and, as valued members of the human fay, should be treated wh rpect, grace, unrstandg and love. Through staff trag, peer tn, and example we seek to te stunts about the harm ed by disrpectful or flippant speech around this topic (for example, by the e of the word ‘gay’ as a put-down and by perpetuatg stereotyp about how LGBTQ+ persons drs or act). How is the topic of homosexualy handled the classroom?
The school sponsors a support group for gay stunts, gave an alumni award to an LGBTQ graduate and last year saw a gay unrgrad elected as stunt body print. Toly also nfirmed that Calv employe, both gay and straight, have left the school for vlatg the school’s polici. RELATED: Calv Universy’s first openly gay stunt body print pav a path.
CALV LGBTQ+ ALUMNI ADVOTE FOR A MORE WELG LLEGE AFTER GAY STAFF IS PHED OUT
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The church’s posn on homosexualy is that while gay members are to be given love and support om their muni, the practice of homosexualy “is patible wh obedience to the will of God as revealed scripture. "I equated beg gay wh s, and I wasn’t fortable wh that my life yet, " she said. Still workg through her own sexualy, she relled gog to church and hearg a sermon about how gay people shouldn’t get married.
“I pretend I agreed, even though I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is really hard to hear, ’” she sophomore year was tough, not only bee she was stgglg wh rencilg who she was wh her relig beliefs but there were other setbacks, too: Her grandmother and dog both died, and she went through a breakup — all the same week. In the 102 years that Stunt Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay stunt body print. I’m proud to be Calv’s first openly gay stunt body print, but hasn’t always been easy to be queer at Calv or to be open wh my story.
CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT PAV A PATH
Sendly, I didn’t want everyone my life to see me as jt gay and overlook all of the other thgs that make me who I am; my bad puns, my statement earrgs, my love for How I Built This, or my obssn wh oatk. Numero profsors, alumni, and fay members have asked me why I’m wrg this now–given that “’s easy to be gay at Calv 2020, ” and “tim have changed. ” I have no doubt that is easier to be gay at Calv 2020 than any other time the past: gay marriage has been legal every state for five years, overall support the U.
STUNT BODY PRINT AT CALV UNIVERSY COM OUT AS GAY
I’m honored to be Calv’s first openly gay stunt body print–and will ntue to reprent your opns at the tabl where cisns are beg ma.
The CRC promot love for gay members, llg past hostily toward the LGBTQ muny “a great failg. ” But also ems homosexual behavr “patible” wh Scripture bee, the church’s view, timacy is a dive gift rerved for marriage between a man and a CRC first staked out that posn 1973. S., cludg an ongog fight over anti-gay hirg polici that has divid stunts, faculty and tste at Seattle Pacific Universy, a medium-sized Christian llege, as well as a possible spl of the Uned Methodist Church to two nomatns, one regnizg same-sex marriage and one ntug to reject there are echo of fights playg out other ntexts, cludg the polil bat over classroom discsn of sexual orientatn Florida and over transgenr athlet petg llegiate sports.