LGBTQ students at religious schools stage walkouts on National Coming Out Day
Students at religious schools across the country walked out of class Tuesday to demand widespread changes be made to how LGBTQ people are treated at religious universities and high schools.
Tuesday’s walkouts at more than 50 schools were organized by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) and the Black Menaces, a group of five Black students at Brigham Young University (BYU) whose viral TikTok videos show their mostly white peers often struggling to answer questions about race and identity.
In a tweet on Monday, the Black Menaces wrote that the walkouts were organized to end “legal discrimination” by religious institutions against LGBTQ students and staff.
“GenZ is done putting up with it,” wrote the group, which recently announced its intent to expand to other campuses.
In a video posted to the Black Menaces’ Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, a member of Understanding Sexuality, Gender, and Allyship (USGA), an unofficial LGBTQ student group on BYU’s campus, is seen leading a group of protesters in a chant of “Two, four, six, eight, stop exemptions, stop the hate!,” referring to Title IX exemptions that are granted to religious schools by the Department of Education (DOE).
Title IX, which prohibits educational institutions that receive government funding from discriminating based on sex, does not apply to colleges or universities controlled by a religious organization “to the extent that application of Title IX would be inconsistent with the religious tenets of the organization,” according to DOE guidelines.
BYU, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is one of 40 religious universities with students that are suing the Education Department for allowing them to sidestep protections guaranteed to LGBTQ students under Title IX.
https://thehill.com/education/3682840-lg...g-out-day/
Students at religious schools across the country walked out of class Tuesday to demand widespread changes be made to how LGBTQ people are treated at religious universities and high schools.
Tuesday’s walkouts at more than 50 schools were organized by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) and the Black Menaces, a group of five Black students at Brigham Young University (BYU) whose viral TikTok videos show their mostly white peers often struggling to answer questions about race and identity.
In a tweet on Monday, the Black Menaces wrote that the walkouts were organized to end “legal discrimination” by religious institutions against LGBTQ students and staff.
“GenZ is done putting up with it,” wrote the group, which recently announced its intent to expand to other campuses.
In a video posted to the Black Menaces’ Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, a member of Understanding Sexuality, Gender, and Allyship (USGA), an unofficial LGBTQ student group on BYU’s campus, is seen leading a group of protesters in a chant of “Two, four, six, eight, stop exemptions, stop the hate!,” referring to Title IX exemptions that are granted to religious schools by the Department of Education (DOE).
Title IX, which prohibits educational institutions that receive government funding from discriminating based on sex, does not apply to colleges or universities controlled by a religious organization “to the extent that application of Title IX would be inconsistent with the religious tenets of the organization,” according to DOE guidelines.
BYU, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is one of 40 religious universities with students that are suing the Education Department for allowing them to sidestep protections guaranteed to LGBTQ students under Title IX.
https://thehill.com/education/3682840-lg...g-out-day/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
