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Tensions between LGBTQ students and administrations endure at many of the hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities. The Christian teachings they ascribe to differ from societal values over gender identity and sexual orientation, because they assert that God created humans in unchangeable male and female identities, and sex should only happen within the marriage of a man and a woman.

Most schools list “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination statements, and half also include “gender identity” – far more than did so in 2013.

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP) -- As monks chanted prayers in Saint John's University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in