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Christian higher ed can't win the LGBTQ debate unless it transforms

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Evangelical colleges, universities, and seminaries have erupted in recent days with LGBTQ-related drama. At George Fox University in Oregon, student Reid Arthur made national news when he decided to come out as gay during the school's annual lip-sync tourney, electrifying his classmates, who offered their energetic support and applause. At Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, student Joanna Maxon is suing the school for using tax records to reveal her marriage to a person of the same sex and expel her based on Fuller’s student conduct code. At Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina, a new hire, the well-regarded professor Karen Swallow Prior, was targeted by ultraconservative Southern Baptists for comments she made in 2018 seemingly in favor of a conference called Revoice, which supports same-sex attracted Christians who are "observing the historic Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality." In my speaking rounds at Chris