"How LGBT Students Are Changing Christian Colleges" (The Atlantic)

The Atlantic ^ | 7/23/14 | Philip Francis/Mark Longhurst

[Faith Presses On]

Over the past five years, an underground movement has been burgeoning on evangelical Christian campuses. Although many of these colleges explicitly ban “homosexual behavior,” they are now home to dozens of LGBT-friendly student groups. The umbrella organization Safety Net, founded in December 2011, encompasses groups from approximately 75 different evangelical Christian colleges. Some of these groups are tiny, and many operate in near-secret. But over the past two weeks, an LGBT group at Gordon College has made itself impossible to ignore.

When we, the authors, attended Gordon College over a decade ago, the vast majority of administrators, faculty, and students simply assumed that the Bible prohibited same-sex attraction. Nestled on Boston’s North Shore, this small outpost of evangelical Protestantism taught us that it was wrong to be gay—not just wrong, but explicitly condemned by both God and the college code of conduct....

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Not so for today’s Gordon students. This past Monday, President Obama signed the Non-Discrimination Executive Order for LGBT people, which will deny federal funding to any university that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Gordon’s President D. Michael Lindsay was one of a number of prominent evangelical leaders who sent a letter to President Obama, asking for an exemption from the order. (Other signatories included Catholic Charities head Fr. Larry Snyder and megachurch pastor Rick Warren.) In other words, Lindsay asked Obama for permission to do what the College has always done: refrain from hiring people who engage in “homosexual behavior.”

[dsc]

“I think they could probably do better, and -— I don’t think I’m alone in saying this -— I’d like to see them try.”

Why? That would just mean that they could flim-flam more people and recruit more children.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’d like to see him try because it’s important to get this crap out in the open to be examined, refuted and dismissed.

[dsc]

“I’d like to see him try because it’s important to get this crap out in the open to be examined, refuted and dismissed.”

Ideally, yes, but in America today the forces of darkness own the media, so it’s hard to get out the Word on any examination, refutation, or dismissal.

[ReformationFan]

That’s good to read.

[bramps]

Over the past years many Gordon students have given messages. And one is more compelling than the next.

Each week it seems like a new, young couple has been married, and then another is bringing in another beautiful baby.

I’m sure evil is trying to get a foothold wherever possible, but God is prevailing at Gordon College.

[4Runner]

Did I not write that the Vatican would be “strangely silent”?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I apologize. I must have misunderstood you. you said,

"Well when the Caliphate gets established here all these fancy-ass elitist university campuses will get a really thorough housecleaning. And the Vatican will be strangely silent."

I thought you meant that the Vatican wouldn't mind if the Caliphate killed off the elite Universities.... and therefore they'd be silent if it happened.

But now, is it possible you meant that the Vatican would be strangely silent because the Vatican would have been the Caliphate's first target? And thus Rome would be silent (i.e. non-existent)?

Sorry if I missed your meaning.