Offers of legal, financial help for lesbian expelled from Grace University

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130612/NEWS/130619859

By Joe Dejka

Offers of legal and financial help are coming in for a woman who contends she was expelled from Grace University in Omaha because she is a lesbian.

Danielle Powell, 24, said Tuesday that she enrolled in the fundamentalist Christian university in 2007 but was expelled last year, a semester before her graduation, after school authorities learned that she had a relationship with a female student.

Although Powell has moved on, marrying a different woman, she is still caught in a dispute with Grace officials over financial aid. She says the university has denied the release of her transcripts, preventing her enrollment in another university.

Grace officials say that's not true and they have been willing to provide transcripts and transfer her credits.

FULL story at link.

[tabbycat31]

1. I honestly don't know why anyone would attend a school like this

I can't imagine living by that many rules. Unless I am doing something illegal, my personal life is none of the school's business.

I wonder if most of the kids here chose this school because of their fundamentalist parents.

[WovenGems]

2. Typical

Very non Christian behavior from Grace. Not too surprising. They insist she repay federal loans even though the feds say that isn't law. They reinstate her then change their minds, word from above? I'm thinking fraud, not on her part, but Graces's for attempting to get money from her under false pretenses.

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

3. Until Congress acts to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, some states will

continue to permit it.

[DirkGently]

4. Good for her. But why a fundamentalist school

in the first place? It's not like they hide their bigotry.

Who goes to an institution in the business of teaching intolerance and expects the opposite?

Weird.

[tabbycat31]

5. I wonder this too

None of the articles I've read about this say anything about her background. I know a lot of these fundamentalist families (think the homeschooling types) only allow their kids to look at colleges that mirror their beliefs.

[asjr]

6. Graceless University.