Former LGBTQ students who attended Briercrest College and Seminary, an evangelical Bible college in Caronport, said they experienced homophobia, abuse and discrimination. sasked
She enrolled two years ago at Briercrest College and Seminary, an evangelical Bible college in Caronport, an hour east of her hometown of Regina. The college grew in prominence in 2013 after former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall, who has spoken at the school’s chapel, gave it the right to grant university degrees, helping it attract students from across the country.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.
They said they are speaking out because they’re concerned for current students at the college and want changes or the school defunded. Briercrest receives funding from the province and was given $250,000 for this school year.Article content “It’s a departure of the ideal. It’s the truth we need to embrace,” Pawelke said in a video of the address posted on the school’s YouTube channel.
Like McGillicky, several students said they were outed after peers or faculty disclosed their sexual orientation to others without permission, resulting in bullying and alienation from their religion, family and friends.Article content “I had to write an essay on why I don’t believe being gay is right, how I denounce all of it. And basically if I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t graduate,” Ross said from his home in Nova Scotia. He said he threw out the essay years ago, but his account was corroborated by a friend.Article contentLauren Jordan, who attended the school between 2013 and 2015, came out to one of her professors. She was told she couldn’t graduate if she was gay and was encouraged to seek therapy, she said.
“You can’t just say, ‘Hey, if you’re queer, don’t go there.’ Because you’re undermining the experience of figuring out your sexuality and the journey that a lot of queer people are going on.”
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