The recent college graduates helped organize a viral protest to hand the president of Seattle Pacific University rainbow Pride flags at commencement.
Now, their next step is to pursue legal action and bring a lawsuit against the Board of Trustees. As Chloe said to the president while gifting him a Pride flag at commencement: “We're not going to stop until the policy changes.
17: Seattle Pacific University is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. What would you want those who question the possibility of progressive policies at Christian schools to know?Conservative Christians have come to define what the faith is, and it's because they have gone out of their way to force everybody to follow this twisted set of values based on personal gain. But there are progressive Christians out there.
I'm most proud of our team, and that we haven't stopped fighting. There have always been these moments of activism at SPU, but it typically ends when the school year ends. We’ve decided that we're not going to stop pushing. We're going to keep fighting and we want things to change. Even though we graduated and walked across that stage, we want SPU to be a place that other people can be proud of and want to come to.
How do we fight to make this world a better place? The people who have control and power are forcing people into their policies. I hate to see injustice anywhere, and we’ve got to do something about it. It’s been a lot of learning as we go. There was no training or course we took on how to organize a protest. We’ve jumped in, we’re doing it, and it’s kind of working.It was kind of by chance. For health reasons, I had been home all of COVID.
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