Student who married same-sex partner expelled from Southwestern Christian University

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Greg Horton

OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) A lesbian student who married her partner was expelled from an Oklahoma university one semester shy of her sports management degree.

Christian Minard, 22, attended Southwestern Christian University, a school affiliated with the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Bethany, Okla. As part of her admission requirements, she signed a lifestyle covenant that prohibits “homosexual behavior.”

Minard, who belongs to an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation in Oklahoma City, is a Christian, but her decision to marry her partner, Kadyn Parks, put her at odds with the school’s lifestyle covenant.

The two were married in Albuquerque, N.M., on March 17. On Wednesday (July 9), a letter addressed to Minard from Brad Davis, the school’s vice president of student life, arrived at her parents’ home, telling her she was being expelled.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/07/11/student-married-sex-partner-expelled-southwestern-christian-university/

[littlemissmartypants]

1. This is so wrong ON SO MANY LEVELS. nt

[Downwinder]

2. Does Oklahoma recognize same sex marriage?

[okasha]

3. The state's ban on equal marriage

has been struck down as unconstitutional, but the state is appealing.

[hrmjustin]

4. It was struck dowhn but in the appeals process.