They of course have received some negative reactions from current and former students, but overall McKissack says they’ve received a lot of positive feedback and have even added supportive straight alumni to their membership roll.īut despite the cordial relations, the group says it’s not satisfied with how current GLBT students are treated. McKissack says some members even plan to go to homecoming this year sporting ORU-OUT shirts and gay pride pins to draw attention to their cause. He’s Mister ‘Something good is going to happen to you and God is a good God.’ To have a message contrary to that would be contradictory to the university’s philosophy.” “He has not slammed anyone over the years. He’s always been an upbeat minister,” McKissack explains. “We’re in a unique position with and Oral Roberts. Bob Jones University, for example, has banned all GLBT alumni from even setting foot on campus. That’s a drastic contrast to how GLBT alumni are treated at other private Christian institutions. Campus security watched us from a distance, but the alumni director had sent out a memo to campus security directing them to not interfere with us in any way.” “We went on campus during wearing our t-shirts. “The very fact that we have the dialogue going that we do… I mean, Oral told us years ago to expect a miracle… we got it!”Īnother mark of the school’s cordial relationship with its GLBT alumni came last June when members of ORU-OUT marched in Tulsa’s gay pride parade. McKissack says it’s up to current students to make those kind of changes, but the school has opened dialogue with them. Unfortunately, the alumni group’s pull in this area is limited. “I’m hoping we would bring them to a place that they could see this is not something worthy of expulsion in the same way they don’t expel pregnant students or straight people found to be messing around with each other.” “If you’re found to be gay you’re expelled,” McKissack explains. Oral Roberts University still not GLBT-friendly
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