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On the last day of her life, Mary Gellner's aunt wore a sweatshirt with the words, "Great things to come." For Gellner, the shirt represented her aunt's sense of humour and the complicated feelings she'd have grieving over her aunt's medically-assisted death.
Tensions over gender identity and sexual orientation pervade the campuses of hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities across the U.S.
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.
The majority of Christian colleges and universities list “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination statements, and half of them also list “gender identity.”
Most schools list “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination statements, and half also include “gender identity” – far more than did so in 2013.