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• TRY WTERN’S ANTI-GAY COC IS BACK THE NEWS
• THE PAFUL TTH ABOUT BEG GAY AT CANADA’S LARGT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• CANADA'S FIRST CHRISTIAN LAW SCHOOL APPROVED DPE GAY LIFTYLE BAN
• TRY WTERN LAW SCHOOL APPROVED SPE ANTI-GAY NCERNS
• TRY WTERN UNIVERSY V ON SEX AND MARRIAGE, BUT NO ONE LLS THEM ON

TRY WTERN’S ANTI-GAY COC IS BACK THE NEWS

But the universy has not retracted the beliefs asserted the document, wr a queer Try Wtern n be tght while gay, but you n never teach, unls you rema abstent om sex— or lie about The bell tower on mp at Try Wtern Universy Langley, B. You n be tght while gay, but you n never teach, unls you rema abstent om sex — or lie about has not retracted the beliefs asserted the venant, nor has issued a statement of apology for s discrimatn agast LGBTQ stunts. Apparently, Try Wtern Universy’s homophobic, fah-based of nduct still chaf.

In the prev se, the BC College of Teachers didn’t want to regnize teachg crentials earned at Try Wtern bee they feared the teachers would spread anti-gay bigotry the classroom.

THE PAFUL TTH ABOUT BEG GAY AT CANADA’S LARGT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSY

The policy stops short of banng gay people om beg staff or stunts. It jt bans gay behavur.

His peers had threatened to kill him on the mere spicn that he might be gay.

The l at TWU have ma headl recent years, as the school’s now-famo muny venant strictly forbids homosexual activi or any form of “sexual timacy that vlat the sacredns of marriage between a man and a woman.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Other mp are rife wh homophobic ments too, I want to assure him, though most now have queer rourc, rather than a venant that explicly forbids same-sex relatnships.

Queer stunts, past and prent, tell Xtra that when they speak out about homosexualy, they’re met wh spicn, hostily and even outright censorship om TWU’s admistratn. Like many queer youth who grow up small towns, Corben moved away to an urban area as soon as he graduated om high school, so he uld live openly as a gay man. His fay and muny had told him that he uldn’t have a relatnship wh God and be gay.

His parents did not tst a secular drama partment bee they thought would nurture his homosexualy.

CANADA'S FIRST CHRISTIAN LAW SCHOOL APPROVED DPE GAY LIFTYLE BAN

Corben’s parents hoped TWU might curb his gayns. His fay has sce told him that his partner will never be wele the fay home, that they will never attend a gay weddg for him, and that they’ll nounce his sexualy to any children he might have the future.

TWU enuraged stunts to seek reparative therapy, and brought speakers to chapel ssns who talked about homosexualy and how “God’s love n brg you out of , ” Lunicke alleg. Lunicke, who studied theatre and psychology, remembers one class where a profsor started a bate about whether homosexualy, as fed by Christian valu, should be labelled a mental illns. The board claimed that children were too young to learn about homosexualy, and that schools should not e books that nflict wh some parents’ relig beliefs.

The urt found no evince that teachers traed at the evangelil universy would discrimate agast gay and lbian stunts their classrooms. Chris Kemplg was a high school unsellor the northern town of Qunel, BC, when he was spend by the BC College of Teachers for sendg anti-gay letters to the edor endorsg reparative therapy.

TRY WTERN LAW SCHOOL APPROVED SPE ANTI-GAY NCERNS

He says ’s unfair to characterize the universy or s venant as uniendly to gay stunts. Intertgly, after her Mars’ Hill story was published, another profsor wrote a piece the newspaper’s followg edn that was also favour of gay rights. “People e to talk to me about all kds of thgs, ” he ntu, “cludg their sexual inty or issu related to homosexualy.

I ask Jab if he thks ’s okay to be gay at Try Wtern now. To my surprise, he tells me that he has e out publicly and has a boyiend now, whom he met onle a Facebook group for gay Christians.

In a pair of keenly anticipated cisns Friday, the high urt said law societi Ontar and Brish Columbia were entled to ensure equal accs to the bar, support diversy and prevent harm to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Supreme Court l agast Christian law school Story ntu below advertisement. Canada's first fah-based law school has received prelimary approval om the natn's law societi, spe objectns to s seemgly anti-gay polici.

TRY WTERN UNIVERSY V ON SEX AND MARRIAGE, BUT NO ONE LLS THEM ON

Proment lawyers and hundreds of law stunts exprsed ncern might produce barristers wh an anti-gay bias. Many gay and lbian stunts have graduated om our universy. Constutnal lawyer Clayton Ruby said he would sue if the school pass the fal hurdle of obtag provcial than 1, 000 law stunts across Canada also signed petns agast the proposal, allegg the school discrimat agast gays and pot to Try's threat of expulsn for stunts who break a pledge of abstag om "sexual timacy that vlat the sacredns of marriage between a man and a woman".

A footnote to this sectn the school's stunt handbook leads to Bible passag that nmn universy did not rpond to requts for an the private Christian stutn has reportedly said wel gays and lbian stunts. "We do not ask about a prospective stunt's sexual orientatn, and many gay and lbian stunts have graduated om our universy, " said a statement ced by Canadian media.

"This was "a simple se of discrimatn agast gays and lbians", said rights lawyer Jason Gratl add that by sistg on "superst, theologil, puranil, sexual standards for s stunts, the Try Wtern Universy law school will lose not only sexually active gays and lbians om the pool of potential stunts, but also a good portn of reasonable, self-rpectg equaly seekers. "This article appeared the South Cha Morng Post prt edn as: 'Anti-gay' Canada law school gets nod of approval.