How Title IX exemptions force LGBT students to suffer in silence

Right now, students at several dozen universities across the nation can be fired from campus jobs, suspended or expelled based solely on identifying as LGBT. This should be an embarrassment not only for the universities, but also for a federal government that has otherwise supported equality.

As a leader of Bison 4 Equality, an on-campus movement at Oklahoma Baptist University, I saw firsthand the freedom these schools have to legally discriminate against students.

That’s because religious colleges may now claim an exemption from federal Title IX regulations that bar discrimination against LGBT students and faculty. Human Rights Watch, which calls the Title IX religious exemption “a license to discriminate,” reports there are 56 schools nationwide that have requested such exemptions, including Wheaton College, Liberty University and George Fox University.

This is not some abstract danger: My school’s administrators coined the term “right to discriminate” in reference to the firing of a bisexual student worker. This is an immediate threat that is costing students their jobs, housing and education....
http://religionnews.com/2016/07/14/how-title-ix-exemptions-force-lgbt-students-to-suffer-in-silence/