University students at a private Christian college are part of a sit-in outside of the interim president's office that has lasted for three weeks.
As graduating seniors at Seattle Pacific University walked across the stage on Sunday, some of them handed rainbow flags to the school's president instead of shaking his hand. The move was a protest of the school's policies for LGBTQ staff.
“What we did was we chose to give our president the flags instead of shaking his hand because many of us are really upset with the current discriminatory lifestyle expectations that are being upheld by our university,” Laur Lugos the class’s student body president told TODAY. The last day of her term was this past Sunday, the day of graduation.
According to a May 23 statement regarding the decision issued by Board Chair Cedric Davis, the decision to uphold the policy means that “SPU’s employee conduct expectations continue to reflect a traditional view on Biblical marriage and sexuality, as an expression of long-held church teaching and biblical interpretation.”