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News: University withdraws lesbian student for "immoral behaviour"
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University withdraws lesbian student for "immoral behaviour"
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A student in Nebraska has been kicked out of her degree for being gay. Now the university, withholding credits, is refusing to allow the student a transfer unless she pays the school a several thousand dollar fine.
Danielle Powell, who was approaching the end of her bachelor’s degree, is now being told she cannot transfer to another school until she agrees to pay a debt of $6,300 (£4,023).
Grace, a religious university, initially suspended the student back in March 2011 for “immoral behaviour”, under which “homosexual acts” were implicated alongside “premarital sex” and “adultery”. This move revoked Powell’s academic scholarship leaving her in debt of just over $6,000 (£3,831).
The school, however, promised to reintegrate Powell on the condition that she attend a restoration programme. The programme, which included both counselling and regular church attendance, placed the student off-campus, in a position where she could no longer use the overnight dorms.
Powell was kicked out in 2012 after refusing to continue working under the imposed restrictions, and the university banned her permanently after it was discovered she was still dating women.
By October, Powell was already looking into attending another college, but was then informed by the university that she could only transfer her three and a half year credits on the condition that she pay the $6,300 tuition fee in full. The university denies they had withheld her transcripts, but Powell states she’s only been offered a student copy she cannot use to transfer.
With no options and no money left, Powell with her wife Michelle Rogers have started an online petition to persuade the university into forgiving the outstanding debt.
The petition, launched over the weekend, now has more than 12,000 signatures.
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Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/06/13...mosexual-acts/
The petition is here, please sign it!
https://www.change.org/petitions/gra...ause-she-s-gay
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Signed. This is disgusting.
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Sickening, honestly. I hope everything works out for her in the end.
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This is why I don't wish to attend religiously affiliated colleges
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I don't think it's fair to revoke the scholarship and have to make the girl pay for the debt.
However, I would never attend a tightly religious university, especially in Nebraska if I were a Lesbian. But I wonder, if pre-marital sex is something bad in their university, I would say 50% of the student population should have been fined and lose their scholarships also.
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Originally posted by aloirt
if pre-marital sex is something bad in their university, I would say 50% of the student population should have been fined and lose their scholarships also.
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This tbh. Poor girl.
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The school, however, promised to reintegrate Powell on the condition that she attend a restoration programme. The programme, which included both counselling and regular church attendance, placed the student off-campus, in a position where she could no longer use the overnight dorms.
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What is this 20th century teas...
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If this school gets one penny of government money, it needs to be revoked immediately 
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Signed. Don't get me started on this.
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Thats unfortunate and all, but
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Originally posted by Karma Chameleon
Grace, a religious university
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Like, cmon. Pretty much asked for trouble.
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Signed... I hope everything works out for her too.
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Unfortunate, but it is a religious university and in the middle of the Mid-west 
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The school's name is ironic.
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I don't think people realize that religious schools offer really great scholarships to minorities(in this sense, someone not of the religion of said school, or of no religion at all)and sometimes that's their only option.
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I don't agree with it but what did she think would happen? I hope it works out for her in the end though.
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Signed. What kinds of sick bigots? Rot in hell.
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