The 79-year-old activist and Stonewall veteran has a decades-long history of fighting for queer liberation.Matt Baume (Them.)
Local Christians actually have backbones:
The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus "opens up doors and makes room at the table." But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, "We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God's creation in all its varied and beautiful forms."According to the school, that update prompted donors to stop contributing, many of them citing their interpretation of Christianity as the reason. Now, UCA has announced it will close at the end of the school year due to the loss of financial support.
Kalie Callaway-George, UCA’s executive director and co-founder, said this new language "is kind of what started the backlash from our donor base, which we anticipated. It was just that we anticipated a 50% loss in funding and made adjustments for that. We had an 80% loss in funding and that was too much to overcome."
This trend has been seen elsewhere -- everywhere that the Christians try to bow down to progress, they got golf claps from all the non-Christians and hte actual Christians stop showing up.
No surprises here.
The school's mission statement has always stressed inclusivity.Andy Fies (ABC News)