Lynchburg, VA - "Trag Champns for Christ," that's how Liberty Universy brands self as the world's largt Christian Universy.A 27-year-old alum opened up and shared his experience of attendg Jerry Falwell's Universy as a gay stunt.
Contents:
- BEG GAY AT JERRY FALWELL'S UNIVERSY
- BEG GAY AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY … AND ELSEWHERE
- COMG OUT AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY: THE STORY OF ONE GAY LU GRAD
- LIBERTY UNIVERSY 'SHGS OFF' CONCERNS OVER OPENLY GAY CHOREOGRAPHER ASSISTG CAMP PRODUCTN?
- A BLACK, GAY MAN IS SUG LIBERTY UNIVERSY FOR DISCRIMATN: “PART OF MYSELF WAS STOLEN”
- IN ADDN TO BEG SUPER ANTIGAY, TURNS OUT LIBERTY UNIVERSY IS VERY PRO RAPIST
- LIBERTY UNIVERSY ‘G LIV’ S BID TO TURN GAYS ‘STRAIGHT’
BEG GAY AT JERRY FALWELL'S UNIVERSY
When Rsell later told her roommate she would rather have been nonted privately, she was told her relatnship “wasn’t right” Liberty junr had been slowly revealg she was gay – nfidg one person, who led her to another gay stunt and then another. ” He ntued to make flammatory statements about gay people throughout his life, but he also ma overtur to the muny later Rev Jerry Falwell crowd surfs held by stunts 1997 durg the Big South Tournament semifal basketball game at Liberty Universy.
Falwell mataed that the “gay liftyle” was a s, but agreed to tone down anti-LGBTQ language, only to later blame the 9/11 terrorist attacks on gay people, femists and “abortnists” Falwell’s ath 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr took over and transformed Liberty to a $1bn empire.
BEG GAY AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY … AND ELSEWHERE
Her story is one of many: several stunts terviewed by the Guardian said they stggled wh ternalized homophobia, mental health problems and suici least she was able to avoid “pastoral unselg”, offered by the school, but which stunts assume is, effect, nversn therapy.
COMG OUT AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY: THE STORY OF ONE GAY LU GRAD
”Every week, Pastor Dane Emerick “would start by tryg to gui to beg biblil men, basilly g the Bible to redirect the homosexualy to a more platonic form, while also havg time where we would nfs our urg to one another and how we had ‘stggled’ wh same-sex attractn that week and if we’d ‘overe’ or not. I have no voice at the school, ” he said, notg that the College Democrats were fund for sistg on a pro-choice a stunt who worked for Liberty, he said he experienced homophobia, but also credible support.
But he also reported his roommat to the Diversy and Incln office bee their flagrant homophobia ma him feel “unsafe” Smoke, a current senr who is currently g out as bisexual, was surprised to fd any queer muny on mp. Not that they would judge you (not all of them) but they would pray for you, ually publicly: "I don't really want to say who and embarrass him, bee he's my roommate and brother Christ, but please remember him prayer, bee he's stgglg wh homosexualy. I learned that I did not like myself, and that is a tough tth to people fd out I unrwent therapy at Jerry Falwell's Christian llege, they assume I went through somethg like gay reparative therapy.
I learned om my time at Liberty that this bigotry happens on both sis: not only were there some Christians who wanted to stone some gays, but there were even some gays who wanted to stone a few Christians. “I wanted to do my part this lawsu bee I wanted Liberty, and all the other schools, to treat their queer stunts the same way that they treat everyone else, ” Lus Wilson, a gay man, told WSLS News.
LIBERTY UNIVERSY 'SHGS OFF' CONCERNS OVER OPENLY GAY CHOREOGRAPHER ASSISTG CAMP PRODUCTN?
“Stunts at Liberty behave homophobic and anti-queer ways bee they know they n do so wh relative impuny, ” one of the platiffs, McKenzie McCann, a former Liberty stunt says the plat. The biblil wrers make clear that practicg homosexuals, along wh sexually immoral heterosexuals and all other unrepentant sners, will not her the kgdom of God (1 Corthians 6:9–10). 2021 - Appalachian Bible College "forbids homosexualy" and sets dangero, unsafe anti-LGBTQ polici and procr l handbook tled The Servants Staff: Helpg Stunts Nurture Godly Character.
A BLACK, GAY MAN IS SUG LIBERTY UNIVERSY FOR DISCRIMATN: “PART OF MYSELF WAS STOLEN”
2021 - Stunt Handbook sharg disciplary standards of nduct stat that: "Scripture specifilly forbids dnkenns, adultery, and fornitn (fed as habatn and/or premaral sexual relatns of both a heterosexual and/or a homosexual nature). "Scripture exprsly forbids certa sexual behavrs, cludg, but not limed to: fornitn, adultery, ct, and homosexual acts (Ex 20:14; Lev 18:7-23, 20:10-21; Matt 5:27-28; Rom 1:20-27; 1 Cor 6:9; Gal 5:19; Eph 4:17-19; Col 3:5). Scripture teach that sexual relatns of any kd outsi of heterosexual monogamo marriage – adultery, fornitn, homosexualy, bisexual, transgenr, btialy, ct, moltatn, pornography, or any attempt to change the sex of one’s birth - are nsistent wh the teachg of Scripture and Church history and therefore prohibed of those wh the Christian fah.
IN ADDN TO BEG SUPER ANTIGAY, TURNS OUT LIBERTY UNIVERSY IS VERY PRO RAPIST
Clarks Summ Universy has qualified for the Worst List bee has a documented history as well as a 2018 public act of anti-LGBTQ discrimatn not allowg a former stunt to re-enroll to the universy bee he is gay. "Some sexual actns are always prohibed the Bible cludg, but not limed to, fornitn, adultery, homosexualy, transgenr intifitn, btialy/zoophilia, prostutn, rape, and sful lt all forms.
Sexual immoraly is also prohibed cludg, but not limed to, fornitn, adultery, homosexualy, transgenr intifitn, btialy/zoophilia, prostutn, ct rape and sful lt all forms (actns fluenced by lt clu but are not limed to pornography, pedophilia, sextg, voyrism, and sex traffickg). "Stunts are also required to absta om all activi which vlate biblil teachgs, such as theft, dnkenns, slanro or profane language, all forms of dishonty cludg cheatg, and sexual ss (such as premaral sex, adultery, homosexual behavr and the e or posssn of obscene or pornographic material). We believe that sexual pury is a necsary exprsn for all of God’s children, and requir abstence om adultery, fornitn, ct, homosexualy, and other sexual relatnships or practic forbidn by Scripture.
When a vlatn of the standards occurs near graduatn, disciplary actns by the semary may clu layg or nyg nferrg of a gree and participatn a graduatn ethil standards are articulated, but not limed to, the followg statements: Sexual misnduct — cludg any form of extramaral sexual terurse, appropriate displays of affectn or attentn, lewd and cent language or nduct, and homosexual behavr.
LIBERTY UNIVERSY ‘G LIV’ S BID TO TURN GAYS ‘STRAIGHT’
"Sexual ss such as premaral sex, adultery, homosexual behavr, rejectn of one’s blogil sex, or any form of sexual harassment or asslt are a vlatn of God’s moral and are e for dismissal om Grace Christian Universy. Exampl of behavr which nstute a vlatn of this Communy Standard clu, but are not limed to…Sexual misnduct cludg premaral sex (heterosexual or homosexual) or any other such nduct that vlat historic Christian standards... 2021 - Employee handbook reads: "Mis of God’s gift will be unrstood to clu, but will not be limed to, sexual abe, sexual harassment, sexual asslt, ct, adultery, fornitn, and homosexual acts.
March 2011 – The State of the Gay at Hardg Universy, Arkansas Universy Blocks Queer Ze, Revolutn Queer Style Now: Christian College Bans Stunts’ Gay ‘Ze, LGBT Stunts at Hardg Universy Cry Out for Help Web Ze; School Immediately Blocks Accs, War at Hardg. 2021-22 - Amic Catalog reads: "We believe that any form of adultery, fornitn, homosexualy, lbianism, pedophilia, bisexualy, btialy, ct, and pornography are sful perversns of God’s gift of sex and sign for mankd". 2016-2017 - Amic Catalog stat that: "Therefore, KMBC retas the right to refe enrollment to or to spend any stunt who engag sexual immoraly, cludg any stunt who profs to be homosexual/bisexual or who is a practicg homosexual/bisexual, as well as any stunt who ndon, supports, or otherwise promot such practic (Levic 18:22; Romans 1:24-32; 1 Corthians 6:9-20; 1 Timothy 1:9-11).