Msiah alumni group supports gay stunts | The Christian Century

Contents:

• BLURRED L: STAYG VAGUE ON GAY PENALTI IMPACTS MSIAH STUNT MUNY
• GAY STUNT TO TRANSFER OUT, SAYS MSIAH COLLEGE PROVED POOR F
• JOSH RTER DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT MSIAH COLLEGE PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA
• THE TREATMENT OF A GAY STUNT AT MSIAH COLLEGE
• POETRY READG: ROSS GAY
• MSIAH ALUMNI GROUP SUPPORTS GAY STUNTS

BLURRED L: STAYG VAGUE ON GAY PENALTI IMPACTS MSIAH STUNT MUNY

At many evangelil universi, you n be gay—as long as you don’t “act” M. But now that gay marriage is legalized, and as the untry unrgo broad cultural shifts, that’s changg. However awkwardly, they’re tryg to wele gay stunts while prervg l agast same-sex “behavr.

For example: Baylor, the natn’s largt Baptist universy, quietly removed s policy forbiddg “homosexual acts” last year.

But the llege’s spokperson, Lori Fogleman, didn’t say whether this change means legally married gay stunts n now enroll at Baylor.

GAY STUNT TO TRANSFER OUT, SAYS MSIAH COLLEGE PROVED POOR F

“As a bisexual woman the Baylor muny, I am very much the closet to everybody that I am not good iends wh here, jt to mimize backlash, ” said a Baylor stunt named Ariel, who requted that her last name not be at many lleg, stunts n still be kicked out for beg a gay relatnship. For example, last year, the wrer Eliel Cz was allegedly told by admistrators that he uldn’t sell cupk to raise money for homels LGBT youth bee such “perceived advocy” of LGBT people would nflict wh the missn of Andrews Universy though some nservative schools are tryg to fd a promise between their nvictns and prevailg cultural norms, this posture often effectively creat two sets of l: one for gay stunts, and one for straight stunts. Meanwhile, gay stunts have to follow different l.

Acrdg to the handbook, “stunts who experience same sex attractn or intify as gay or lbian are expected to rea om ‘same sex sexual exprsn’ as is embodied culturally ntextual practic (e. “The joke among my iends is that you n be gay at Msiah, jt so long as you don’t act gay, or say gay thgs, or do anythg to show you’re gay. And while a majory of evangelils rema opposed to gay marriage, some of their lears, cludg the evangelil ethicist David Ghee, have offered a biblil se for gay marriage and full acceptance of LGBT people wh the church.

JOSH RTER DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT MSIAH COLLEGE PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA

As a December Pew Rearch study noted, “Roughly half (51%) of evangelil Prottants the Millennial generatn (born between 1981 and 1996) say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

Ined, the balancg act of beg openly gay, remag celibate, and meetg the expectatns of a nservative relig muny n sometim be too much to bear, even at lleg that want to show an openns on the issue.

THE TREATMENT OF A GAY STUNT AT MSIAH COLLEGE

After beg urted by Wheaton College Illois, the openly gay blogger Julie Rodgers accepted the posn of “mistry associate for spirual re” for the LGBT populatn on mp 2014. Dpe her succsful mistry at Wheaton, she rigned 2015, and wrote an article about her disappotg print of Wheaton “said he’d heard nothg but posive thgs about my mistry wh stunts on mp, but they hadn’t anticipated so much cricism om alumni and donors, ” Rodgers Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, speaks to Christian llege mp support of LGBT stunts, and often se a disnnect between how the admistratn views LGBT issu and how stunts view them. Stunts who experience same sex attractn or intify as gay or lbian are expected to rea om "same sex sexual exprsn" as is embodied culturally ntextual practic (e.

POETRY READG: ROSS GAY

(RNS) Alumni at evangelil Msiah College have lnched an onle petn urgg the nservative Christian school to change s polici toward gay and lbian stunts. The move follows a siar petn at another evangelil flagship stutn, Wheaton College suburban Chigo, where gay alumni and supporters have lnched the group OneWheaton. Msiah's Communy Covenant prohibs "homosexual behavr, " which the petn says humaniz and margaliz stunts who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, and creat divisns wh the mp muny.

The petn the wake of a story about an openly gay Msiah stunt who plans to transfer at the end of the semter after beg harassed and threatened on mp. Msiah hman Isaiah Thomas, who is gay, has said he's received ath threats on Facebook, had property stolen and had been harassed by a profsor.

MSIAH ALUMNI GROUP SUPPORTS GAY STUNTS

"Msiah is transparent about s fah mments, relig herage, re valu and behavral expectatns on a prehensive range of issu, not limed to, but cludg sexual behavr (both heterosexual and homosexual), " Phipps said a letter to the mp. "Specifilly, the llege's stance on homosexual behavr is rooted a scriptural unrstandg of marriage and a sexual ethic historilly affirmed by the Christian church -- cludg Msiah's foundg nomatn, the Brethren Christ. "RelatedlgbtmsiahrelignGay RightsGay StuntsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.