Separate Gay Graduations
“A growing number of colleges and universities are holding separate “lavender graduations” to honor their gay, lesbian and transgendered graduates, AgapePress reports. These students are often given awards and typically receive rainbow-colored tassels to put on their mortarboards during their commencement activities. Critics feel that the schools holding lavender graduations — like Duke University, UCLA, the University of Georgia, and the University of Washington — are rooted in anti-Christian hostility.
Jason Mattera, with the Virginia-based Young America’s Foundation, feels that these exercises are in effect promoting segregation and do not show equality. The homosexual agenda keeps saying they want to be treated normally, but this is obviously an example of looking for special treatment, says Mattera. The homosexual students should be offended on these campuses because the “honorees” are not being rewarded for their academic merits, but for their sexual behavior.
Mattera also says that, if a Christian club wanted a separate ceremony and read scriptures, they would probably be charged with hate speech and reported to the human resource department. They would also probably be flogged by the diversity deans and multicultural deans on the college campus.”
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I agree, to have separate ceremonies totally flies against equality
Yes, but in ALL fairness to you both, certain groups DO have seperate graduations at MANY colleges. They have what they call Awards dinners where only SPECIFIC groups are invited to attend. The hispanics have a MECHA ceremony, YES EVEN your beloved Christians have their on ceremonies, just look at nearly ANY BSU on any campus in north america.
They ONLY reason they are talking about this in the news is because it happens to be for homosexuals. I think its great that ANY group can hold ceremonies for their group participants. The Nursing students at my college ALWAYS held HUGE Graduations from the academy and then attended the regular graduation and I personally NEVER saw a problem with it.
Its “Lets pick on gays time” YET again…. And Dukle University shouldnt even be listed when talking about diversity LOL Have you seen the mess they are in…
Is being gay a major now? You can’t compare the nursing program to this. As far as Hispanic and Christian groups having separate ceremonies, I’ll look into that but I don’t like it anyway.
Graduation should be inclusive and all should partcipate.