Wichita academy denies students with LGBT family members

by Sara Ritsch
Staff Writer

A private Christian academy in Kansas has taken their traditional guidelines to a new level by banning the admission of any student with a gay family member.

Trinity Academy, a nondenominational Christian high school in Wichita, has students sign a Statement of Understanding, wherein the student agrees to follow Jesus Christ and the Bible and to regularly attend church. But the student must also agree to this:

“Given the debate and confusion in our society about marriage and human sexuality it is vital that Trinity families agree with and support the school’s traditional, Christian understanding of those issues. Therefore, when the atmosphere or conduct within a particular home is counter to the school’s understanding of a biblical lifestyle, including the practice or promotion of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) lifestyle or alternative gender identity, the school should have the right, in its sole discretion, to deny the admission of an applicant or discontinue enrollment of a current student.”

In other words, if you have a gay or transgender – or even identifiably queer – sibling, they do not want you.

Even Christian colleges such as Oral Roberts University allow gay students if they do not “practice” homosexuality. A celibate homosexual is allowed to attend even the most traditional of institutions.

Trinity Academy denies or expels even those who have a gay brother.

There is no indication as to whether this is a new rule in response to the anti-LGBT legislation the nation has seen this past year. The document was leaked to atheist publication Patheos this week.

The Gayly – 5/20/2016 @ 3:42 p.m. CDT