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BYU student reveals rainbow flag under graduation gown in protest of school's LGBTQ policies
Today Show, a division of Fake News NBC ^ | 04/26/2022 | Amy Eley

Posted on 04/27/2022 4:15:29 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

Jillian Orr hopes other students at Brigham Young University who are hiding their sexual orientation feel less alone.

...The psychology major, who is bisexual, spread out her graduation gown to reveal a rainbow flag underneath.

BYU, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, restricts LGBTQ students from dating or showing signs of affection while enrolled at the university. Students who do so can be reported to school officials and are at risk of being disenrolled.

For 28-year-old Orr, who was raised in the church and served an 18-month church mission in Oregon, she said she didn’t realize until she was halfway through her education at the university that she was bisexual.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; education; homosexuality; media
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I am not a Mormon, think they're theology is unbiblical.

Nevertheless, what this girl did was wrong. You are supposed to play by the rules. And for the media to act like it is heroic is disgusting.

1 posted on 04/27/2022 4:15:29 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I know people who were naked underneath their graduation gowns.


2 posted on 04/27/2022 4:16:40 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, bust that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

She sounds like a fan of Dirty Harry Reid...that thoroughly depraved and amoral Mormon.


3 posted on 04/27/2022 4:17:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

There is no “sexual orientation” when you can decide if you’re male or female.


4 posted on 04/27/2022 4:19:36 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

What a coward she is.

That is like a pathetic weakling jumping into an armored race car with the engine running and screaming at a bully while peeling out.

If she was so ‘brave’ she would have worn her rainbow during the school year, not when she wasn’t able to be asked about it.


5 posted on 04/27/2022 4:21:56 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Tell It Right

Amazon is having trauma sessions for employees triggered by their sale of the book johnny the walrus

I am so sick of snowflakes holding the world hostage


6 posted on 04/27/2022 4:22:24 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“disenrolled”?
Cute.
Whatever happened to “expelled”?


7 posted on 04/27/2022 4:24:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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... psychology major

It wasn't that long ago that LGBTQ types were considered to have a mental disorder by the APA, now they're behind the movement attempting to normalize pedophilia. The folks who warned of a 'slippery slope' back then where right.

8 posted on 04/27/2022 4:30:34 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: Recovering_Democrat

She’s 28 and still in college.


9 posted on 04/27/2022 4:33:10 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“...psychology major...” well there’s your problem right there


10 posted on 04/27/2022 4:33:24 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot
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To: Recovering_Democrat
You are supposed to play by the rules.

Not defending this girl, but that is a naive, conventional statement.

11 posted on 04/27/2022 4:39:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Psychology major to top it off. She’ll be screaming debt relief from her coffee job in no time.


12 posted on 04/27/2022 4:42:36 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: DaBroasta
The communists are using gays to push their agenda.

They always pick a "victim class" to create anger against the existing system.

Gays, blacks, workers, pedophiles...anyone will do as long as they can be convinced they are being victimized.

13 posted on 04/27/2022 4:44:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: napscoordinator

I was no trail blazer, but I owned a rental property as well as my own home and was married at 28.


14 posted on 04/27/2022 4:49:49 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Recovering_Democrat

While the policy is characterized as anti-LBGTQetc, it is only proper that one keeps one’s sexual proclivities private.

As for BYU, being that it is a religious school, it can have policies based on the doctrines of its church.


15 posted on 04/27/2022 4:50:08 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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So what if you are bi? Most men are attracted to many women, most women to many men, and yet monogamy is still the ideal. Even the LDS came around.

So you never got to explore your feelings for Zoe or Maddie. You also didn’t get to with Will and Hunter and Jack.


16 posted on 04/27/2022 4:50:30 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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Nevertheless she was quite happy to attend BYU - I believe practicing Mormons whose families are in good standing, i.e. have paid the tithe, attend free. She could have gone to any number of universities accepting - even endorsing and fostering - LGBTQ standards.


17 posted on 04/27/2022 4:52:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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...she said she didn’t realize until she was halfway through her education at the university that she was bisexual.

This is one confused woman.

18 posted on 04/27/2022 4:53:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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She could have gone to UC Berkley where she'd disappear in crowd of like minded people but wanted to be special and throw her mental illness in the face of the people who tried to educate her.
19 posted on 04/27/2022 4:56:02 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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They always pick a "victim class" to create anger against the existing system.

Indeed--the 'progressives' are following Mao's red book like the blueprint he intended it to be. Sad that our society has been so dumbed down most don't even realize it.

20 posted on 04/27/2022 4:56:18 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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