The article chose to do is titled “Even on Religious Campuses, students fight for gay identity.” This article was written by Erick Eckholm in the New York Times. This article is about how the amount of gays and lesbians are coming out of the closet at a Christian school. However, at the same time they have to battle to be accepted by Christian schools, which say that everyone should be accepted. This is becoming a big issue in many schools. There are a lot of students that are dealing with this problem, not just in Christian schools, but all over.
Christians are known to have the belief that everyone, no matter their status, should be accepted. So this to be issue in the Christian schools, raises a lot of questions to these students and the people who support the Christian faith. The article states, “Decades after the gay rights movement swept the country’s secular schools, more gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to come out of the closet” (Eckholm) from what I have learned about the Christian belief, this sounds like it should not be a problem. However, the article goes on to say, “But in their efforts to assert themselves, whether in campus clubs or more publicly on Facebook, gay students are running up against administrators who defend what they describe as God’s law on sexual morality, and who must also answer to conservative trustees and alumni.” (Eckholm) This means that these Christian schools are not living up to what people thought was the real beliefs of Christians. In the end it is not like these students are causing trouble, they really just want something or somewhere they can express their sexuality without being judged. This shouldn’t be a problem for schools to understand, and as long as these students aren’t bothering others or doing anything against school policies, it shouldn’t be a problem to accept these students.
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