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pstokely

(10,530 posts)
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 06:18 AM Aug 2017

Expelled for being LGBT? Missouri college named the worst for gay and trans students

Source: KC Star

A school in Missouri is the most unfriendly to LGBT people out of hundreds of colleges, according to a survey published this month.

The College of the Ozarks, a private Christian school in Point Lookout, Mo., topped the list as the worst for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual students out of 382 colleges.

Valorie Coleman, a public relations director at the school, told the Springfield News-Leader that she does not consider the school hostile to LGBT people, but she acknowledged its strict rules against what she called sexual immorality.

“We are pretty transparent about it,” she said. “That is who we are. We are a religious institution that adheres to a Christian worldview.”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article169584892.html



at least they don't leave their grads in debt like that fake college Liberty U
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Expelled for being LGBT? Missouri college named the worst for gay and trans students (Original Post) pstokely Aug 2017 OP
I would expect no less from an uber religious school. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #1
Don't see why anyone would want to go there dembotoz Aug 2017 #2
at that place, students work on campus jobs in exchange for tuition pstokely Aug 2017 #4
I would bet that applies to the whole state Egnever Aug 2017 #3
Looked them up on Wikipedia Odoreida Aug 2017 #5
The school is about 40 miles from me, yet I forget it is there The Genealogist Aug 2017 #6
at least they don't go into huge debt pstokely Aug 2017 #7

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
1. I would expect no less from an uber religious school.
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 08:14 AM
Aug 2017

Its policy states that sex is for the purpose of procreation of human life only. So when you start with THAT, you know its a pretty strict institution.

pstokely

(10,530 posts)
4. at that place, students work on campus jobs in exchange for tuition
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:14 AM
Aug 2017

if they aren't fundy freaks, maybe they can't afford a real college

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
6. The school is about 40 miles from me, yet I forget it is there
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 04:28 PM
Aug 2017

A nickname for it is "Hard Work U" as students are required to work as part of their schooling. Other than its conservative social stances and strict rules for their students, I know very little about the school at all. I'm not a bit surprised that it is at the top of this list.

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