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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1582139" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/8/gordon-college-backlash-sparks-discrimination-accu/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/8/gordon-college-backlash-sparks-discrimination-accu/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Gordon College accuses gay activists of discriminating against its Christian students</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>No college has taken more flak after running afoul of the gay rights movement than <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> College, but it turns out the small Christian institution in Wenham, Massachusetts, also has some supporters.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>One of them is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lori-damico/" target="_blank">Lori D'Amico</a>, who submitted petition signatures last week to require the city’s school district to hold another hearing on its vote to bar <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> undergraduates from serving as student teachers in the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lynn/" target="_blank">Lynn</a> system.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Another is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/peter-kirsanow/" target="_blank">Peter Kirsanow</a>, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who fired off a letter to the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lynn/" target="_blank">Lynn</a> mayor last month warning her that the school committee had violated the First Amendment by discriminating against <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> College students based on their religion.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The uproar was spurred by <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> President <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/d-michael-lindsay/" target="_blank">D. Michael Lindsay</a>’s joining a July letter from religious leaders to President Obama, asking him to carve out a general religious exemption from an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Critics have blasted the request as proof that <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> condones discrimination, but <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/peter-kirsanow/" target="_blank">Mr. Kirsanow</a> disagreed.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“As noted above, no one has claimed that a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/gordon/" target="_blank">Gordon</a> College student teacher has discriminated against a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lynn/" target="_blank">Lynn</a> public school student on the basis of their sexual orientation, or even made a comment about sexual orientation,” he said in his letter.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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