Msiah College alumni urge admistrators to change gay, lbian stunt polici

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.

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

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.

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

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. “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.

JOSH RTER DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT MSIAH COLLEGE PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA

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 ALUMNI GROUP SUPPORTS GAY STUNTS

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.