Student: Expelled from college after gay marriage

[joeybee12]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A woman said Monday that she was expelled from a private, Christian college in suburban Oklahoma City because she married her same-sex partner.

Christian Minard, 22, said she received a letter last week from Southwestern Christian University notifying her of the expulsion after returning from her honeymoon in Las Vegas. Minard said she did not know how the university learned of her March 17 marriage in Albuquerque, New Mexico, though she did say she posted her marriage license on Facebook.

"I'm not friends with anyone from my university. And there have been pictures of us because we've been in relationship for 3½ years, and no one ever said word," Minard said.

University Academic Vice President and Provost Connie Sjoberg said Minard had been a student at the school in the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany but no longer was. She said federal privacy laws kept her from providing details.

http://news.yahoo.com/student-expelled-college-gay-marriage-001243061.html

[NaturalHigh]

1. It's a private university, and...

"Minard admitted that she violated her signed student conduct code, known as a lifestyle principal, which prohibits homosexual relationships. The code also includes prohibitions on smoking, drinking, cheating, premarital sex, discrimination, harassment and profanity."

Regardless of anyone's opinion of the school, the administration is well within its legal rights.

[tammywammy]

4. I agree.

You shouldn't sign a code of conduct or attend a school that is the opposite of what you believe in. Why would a gay person attend an anti-gay bigoted school like this?

[joeybee12]

7. I think 18-years-old probably don't know all they believe at that point...

People start to figure things out later...don't blame her...

[uppityperson]

8. Isn't the school violating those? Discrimination and harassment in particular?

They are discriminating against and harassing someone for doing something legal.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Bethany, the town, was founded by Nazarenes.

In the 70's it was illegal for a woman to walk down the street in pants. Really.

The college in question is Pentecostal. I don't go to Bethany very often except for the library, which is a county system, so not as ass backwards as the rest of the place.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Its a bible college more or less

However, in 1981 the governing body of the denomination decided to re-focus the goals of the institution. The International Pentecostal Holiness Church ended the school's junior college plan and scaled back the institution to an abbreviated form of its original design. As a result, it became a Ministry training college. In addition to this they moved to the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany, Oklahoma. At this time the name changed from Southwestern Bible College to Southwestern College of Christian Ministries

SCU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. It is approved by the General Department of Church Education Ministries of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for training ministers, missionaries, and Christian workers and is approved by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) to offer Bible and theology courses for teacher certification for Christian day schools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Christian_University


it has 463 students and costs $12000 a year.

https://www.cappex.com/colleges/Southwestern-Christian-University


Odd she chose this school.

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. She says she is one semester short of a degree in sports management.

So it must not be solely a ministry training school.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11/southwestern-christian-university-gay-student-_n_5579082.html

She is concerned about losing credits if she transfers and says there is no similar program in the area.

I'll bet OU and OSU have sports management programs... and are probably cheaper.

Who knows why she chose the school in the first place, but their "prohibition of homosexual behavior" can't have been a surprise to her.

[kiva]

6. Zero sympathy from me.

If people would stop enrolling in these colleges, if parents would stop enrolling their children into religious schools and then complaining about the rules, then these schools would close.

[lpbk2713]

9. A degree from a bible school isn't worth much.

Grads either become televangelists, missionaries, church school
teachers or church music directors.