James Finn
1 min readApr 15, 2021

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Absolutely, many students who attend these kind of schools say that they didn’t come out publicly or even to themselves until after they were a year or two into their education.

Another thing to consider is that many students, when they are 17 years old and applying to universities, lack the agency to go against their parents' wishes.

The Evangelical Christian world tends not just to be very homophobic but very controlling of adolescents. Many Evangelical parents are unlikely to support any kind of university for their child that doesn’t meet their strict religious requirements.

This also comes into play with transferring. While Oral Roberts probably takes no active steps to make transferring difficult, many students from Evangelical families would have a hard time doing so without family support.

Just more reasons why the taxpayer should never fund any educational institution that discriminates against LGBTQ people.

If universities want to mistreat LGBTQ people, they need to be completely private organizations with zero taxpayer funding or preferential treatment.

And even then, of course, LGBTQ activist and advocates would find ways to attack them and hurt them as much as possible — until they stopped mistreating members of gender and sexual minorities.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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