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Presidents of religious colleges converse in the hallway of the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the 2019 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Presidents Conference on Feb.1, 2019. | THE CHRISTIAN POST
A leading association of over 180 Protestant colleges and universities is coming to the defense of Christian colleges amid a lawsuit filed by former and current LGBT students who seek to revoke religious schools’ exemptions to Title IX discrimination law.
The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities filed a motion to intervene in a legal challenge against the U.S. Department of Education seeking to strip federal financial aid from college students who attend faith-based institutions that espouse biblical beliefs on marriage, gender and sexuality.
It is recognized that some interpretations of Title IX may create tension with the religious beliefs of certain institutions of higher education. To address this, the law also provides an exemption for certain religious institutions, stating that this prohibition “shall not apply to an educational institution which is controlled by a religious organization if the application of this subsection would not be consistent with the religious tenets of such organization.” 20 U.S.C. 1681
(a)(3).
This religious exemption is explained further in 34 C.F.R. 106.12, which outlines the eligibility for such exemptions, as well as the process to seek an exemption. Generally, to claim an exemption, the institution must do any of the following:
A Gay Man Says He Was Tormented at Liberty University. Now He s Suing May 13 2021 1:44 PM EDT
I read with great interest that Liberty University filed a suit against its former president, Jerry Falwell, Jr. Liberty says that he damaged its reputation after last year’s revelations of “a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell; his wife, Becki; and another man, Giancarlo Granda.” It’s ironic to watch this institution paint itself as a victim, when it has victimized so many of its own students. I was one of them.
I still vividly remember my meetings with Dane Emerick, Liberty’s former in-house conversion “therapist” and the pastor I met with over the span of my undergraduate studies. At Emerick’s behest, I was consistently expected to offer a detailed stock of my teenage sexual history and activity. He told me that despite being attracted to men, I was not actually gay but, rather, a heterosexual “struggling with same-sex attraction.”