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How can you be LGBTQ+ at an evangelical university? In secret

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•••Upon matriculating at Liberty University, students have to sign an honor code called The Liberty Way, which describes accepted and forbidden behaviors (the latter includes drinking alcohol and having premarital sex).The 22-page document also states that “sexual relations outside of a biblically-ordained marriage between a natural-born man and a natural-born woman are not permissible at Liberty University”.That there is any LGBTQ community at Liberty University may be surprising.

The school was founded in 1971 by Southern Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, a man renowned for his attacks on the gay community.

In the 1980s, he notoriously claimed that “Aids is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals. It is God’s punishment for the.

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