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Religious Exemption Accountability Project Profile picture
Religious Exemption Accountability Project
@REAP_LGBTQ
Empowering LGBTQIA+ students and allies at religious colleges/universities where religious exemptions are used to abuse queer and trans students. #DontExemptUs
Aug 10, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The U.S. Department of Education just granted Baylor University a Title IX exemption for sexual harassment.

This is the first time that a university has requested a religious exemption to permit sexual harassment and the first time the DoED has granted such a request. (🧵) In a 2021 letter to the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, @Baylor requested a religious exemption for the following three claims: The University’s alleged decision to deny applications for an official charter for Gamma Alpha Upsilon. The University’s alleged decision to pressure University media to not report on LGBTQ events and protests in September and October 2021. And The University’s alleged response to notice that students were subjected to harassment based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Jun 12, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Have you watched the documentary Shiny Happy People yet?

If you have, maybe you’ve noticed some similarities between IBLP/the Christian homeschooling movement and Christian colleges.

We’ll call them… Shiny Happy Colleges. Image The documentary puts a large focus on Bill Gothard and the Institute for Biblical Life Principles, a fundamentalist organization that built an empire on controlling Christian families.
May 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Victoria Joy Bacon's time as a student at @Lipscomb University was one marked by violence, fear, and anti-#LGBTQ harassment – and that's why they are one of the plaintiffs in our lawsuit to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination at taxpayer-funded religious colleges. 1/6 As a queer, gender fluid, nonbinary trans womxn, Victoria felt unsafe on campus from the first day they moved in. Over the course of their education, school officials they met with often said transphobic and homophobic things and exhibited little respect for LGBTQ+ students. 2/6
May 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
The non-denominational church that Jonathan attended while growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas had always felt like home – until he came out as a part of the queer community and embraced their identity as a bisexual, non-binary, genderfluid person. (1/8) Image Jonathan is now just months away from graduating from @azusapacific this July, where they participate in a scholarship program focused on social justice and leadership. (2/8)