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
• MSIAH COLLEGE ALUMNI URGE ADMISTRATORS TO CHANGE GAY, LBIAN STUNT POLICI
• JOSH RTER DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT MSIAH COLLEGE PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA
• 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.

MSIAH COLLEGE ALUMNI URGE ADMISTRATORS TO CHANGE GAY, LBIAN STUNT POLICI

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. 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.

JOSH RTER DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT MSIAH COLLEGE PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA

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.

MSIAH ALUMNI GROUP SUPPORTS GAY STUNTS

What do mean to be gay at Msiah College? Why did the stunts choose a school agast homosexual behavr? I didn't want to go wh prumptns and my own hypoth on the topic sce I would be nductg an ethnography, stead, my goal was start wh a clean slate, allowg the stunts I observed to speak through their stori, what is like to be gay at Msiah.

Ferreira, Josi, "The Stori of Four Gay Stunts At Msiah College" (2004).

(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.