(RNS) —The school Spokane, Washgton, jos a sliver of Christian lleg and universi that have bucked a largely sturdy ristance to hirg married gay faculty.
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‘DISAPPOTED BUT NOT SURPRISED’: WHWORTH CL TO FE POSN ON LGBTQ EMPLOYE AFTER FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSOR SHAR NCERNS
Stunt ernment pass rolutn to label lbian and gay employe ‘protected class.' * whitworth university gay professor *
That’s what the former polil science profsor and first openly gay profsor at Whworth Universy said a New Yorker profile last month. In recent years, schools have elected to leave the uncil after announcg they would hire married gay and lbian faculty. When a polil science job opened up at Whworth 2011, Lee asked iends if the universy would be welg to a gay profsor, she told the New Yorker.
“I am gay and teach at a member stutn of the Council for Christian Colleg and Universi. A few weeks earlier, two schools had left the anizatn after announcg that they would start hirg married gay and lbian faculty, an unacceptable theologil posn for most member stutns. If this e-mail was really om a gay faculty member at a C.
The stat quo was somethg closer to “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: universy admistrators assumed that there were lbian and gay faculty among their ranks, but they ma a pot not to quire to their employe’ sex liv. A gay profsor at Milligan Universy, Tennsee, was reportedly forced to rign.