Alumni of all ag gathered at the First Church Wenham Friday night to nnect and discs issu facg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny at Gordon College.
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GORDON COLLEGE ALUMNI STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS ON MP
On evangelil mp, where s of nduct prohib "homosexual behavr," 's beg more and more difficult to ignore the prence of gay and lbian stunts. * gordon college gay *
Ntled on Boston’s North Shore, this small outpost of evangelil Prottantism tght that was wrong to be gay—not jt wrong, but explicly nmned by both God and the llege of nduct. Sure, a fledglg group emerged here and there to foster dialogue about homosexualy and Christian fah, explorg the edg of accepted belief, but all of —qutners and Bible-thumpers alike—signed an agreement, statg no uncerta terms that we would not take part homosexual activi of any 10 a. LGBT voic were so muffled at Gordon that the majory of stunts uld spend four years at the stutn and walk away wh a diploma, never havg been forced to qutn their basic assumptn that homosexualy was a so for today’s Gordon stunts.
While Ldsay’s signature might have once been seen as a reflectn of uny—a statement of evangelil Christiany’s opposn to homosexualy—the opns that me forth om Gordon were diverse. “I disvered that had been preemptively purchased, ” says Miller, “along wh other LGBT-iendly doma nam for other Christian College allianc [such as and] by an dividual Oregon wh an anti-gay rights agenda. In the midst of the recent sndal, one gay Gordon stunt told Miller how he’d felt durg an unexpected enunter wh Print Ldsay: “He reunted workg out on an ellipse mache the Gordon College gym, gettg a good sweat on, and boppg to Beyoncé on his headphon, when sudnly he realized that Print Ldsay had mounted the ellipse mache next to him, and was startg a workout.