Wesleyan University, once a Christian school, is now offering campus housing for 15 different alternative sexualities, also known as “LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.” It has a specific place for sadomasochists, but straight males looking to join a men-only fraternity are out of luck.
Named after the renowned 18th-century evangelical theologian John Wesley, Wesleyan University has long since adhered to Christian values on its Connecticut campus and is currently known as a secular academic institution.
But even as a post-Christian university, Wesleyan is now setting new standards for secular humanist campus culture, but the liberal arts college’s assault on Christian values has not been appreciated by all.
When Wesleyan ordered all of its fraternities to admit women on the allegations of “sexual discrimination” and “false and deceptive practices,” Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) sued school officials, according to The Christian Post (CP), arguing that their sexual libertinism had gone too far.
For Wesleyan undergrads not looking to live in men-only frat houses, housing options abound. Students without degrees are required to live on campus and can choose from: the Womanist House, the Malcolm X House, the Lighthouse (welcoming “open-minded Christians”), the Women of Color House and houses designated for Asians and Latinos, just to name a few, according to the lawsuit.
Under another housing option, Wesleyan’s Office of Residential Life invites gender-confused students who identify themselves under the umbrella of one or more of the 15 alternative sexualities to join a house embracing everyone but heterosexuals. This campus residence is called “Open House,” which welcomes each of the 15 groups represented by the acrostic “LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.”
For those not in-tune with many of the invented “gender identities,” LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM individuals represent the following groups (in order): lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, flexual, asexual, genderf***, polyamorous, bondage/disciple, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism.
Diversity … according to campus politics
The complaint filed against Wesleyan University contends that school officials are violating their own declared goals of diversity and inclusiveness by only offering male-only and female-only housing in the residence halls on campus.
Even though the liberal arts college’s website champions its room and board accommodations as offering a “diversity of housing options,” the lawsuit brought against the school points out its hypocrisy by highlighting how it violates the very sex discrimination policy that it supposedly upholds — by excluding the housing option of male-only fraternities.
Ironically, all fraternities were forced to open their doors to women in an effort to solve the sexual assault problem on campus — a policy many consider as exacerbating the problem, rather than mitigating it.
“The move to make fraternities accept women was in response to concerns about campus rape,” CP’s Nap Nazworth explained. “A group of faculty and students argued last spring that frat parties encourage sexual assault by men against women.”
Giving male-only fraternities no say in the matter, school officials ordered them to conform with their new controversial policy or suffer the consequences for violating its “non-discrimination” code. The penalty? Termination of the fraternity from campus.
“The solution was to place more women in fraternities,” Nazworth continued. “In an open letter, the group called for requiring the school's three all-male fraternities to ‘drastically reform’ and admit women.”
The open letter explained it this way:
"Because fraternities are male-exclusive and the possessors of some of our campus' largest party spaces, they explicitly and implicitly cultivate a gender-based power dynamic that privileges men, the hosts, over women, who are among the guests,” the letter reads. “This power dynamic engenders sexual assault because women are institutionally encouraged to 'repay' men for their hospitality, often with sex, and men are institutionally provided with a control over their guests, especially women."
According to the reasoning behind the letter, women will be in less danger by living in frat houses than they would be by just visiting them. In other words, the self-proclaimed “gender-based power dynamics” created by men-only fraternities encourages sexual assault, and women living with men under the same roof will eliminate sexually deviant behavior.
Moving fast … too fast
Paying little to no heed to the religious or moral convictions of the student body that opposes the inclusion of women to fraternities, school officials are making no concessions, telling the Wesleyan’s DKE chapter to abide by its demands under their timetable … or else.
Wesleyan DKE Chapter President Terence Durkin, a junior, says that school officials originally gave him and his fraternity three years make the mandatory transition to allow female students — a directive he insists his group had every intention of following. However, Wesleyan quickly changed the deadline to five months without warning.
“We just want to be able to live in our house next year,” Durkin told The Washington Post. “We believe we’re being unfairly singled out by the administration. They’re just trying to promote their own form of diversity.”
In an attempt to justify not following through with its initial terms, Wesleyan emailed The Washington Post a statement alleging that DKE did not appear to being demonstrating enough progress to indicate that it was making the prescribed changes.
“Despite repeated requests from the University and several months in which to formulate its approach, the plan eventually submitted by DKE and subsequent communication from the organization did not include any timeline or detail for its proposed approach to partner with a sorority; nor did it adequately assure the university that female residents would have full and equal access to common areas of the house,” Wesleyan University Spokesman William Holder claimed.“DKE’s annual program housing agreement was terminated for the next academic year only after the organization repeatedly failed to take any meaningful steps or make any reasonable commitments toward residential co-education before the date on which the housing selection process began.”
Giving no specifics as to what particular assurances the school requested from DKE, Wesleyan was reportedly vague in its requirements, giving DKE little guidance on how to proceed or what was expected.
Tip of the iceberg
Wesleyan’s stance is nothing short of political posturing, says Carl R. Trueman, who serves as Paul Wooley professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. He insists the liberal school’s progression of embracing four alternative sexualities (LGBT) to 15 (LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM) is indicative of the direction university campuses are going across America.
"This endless expansion of sexual categories is a necessary consequence of what is now the fundamental tenet of modern sexual politics, and perhaps a key element of modern politics in general: That a person's attitude to sex is the primary criterion for assessing their moral standing in the public square,” Trueman explained in an op-ed for First Things. “If you say that sex has intrinsic moral significance, then you set it within a larger moral framework and set limits to the legitimate use of sex.”
Trueman insists that Christians and social conservatives sticking to biblical morality over sexual issues will increasingly be viewed as hostile, as if people with religious convictions or objections to perverted sexual activity are the KKK of sexuality.
“In doing so, you declare certain sexual acts illegitimate, something which is now considered hate speech,” Trueman concluded. “This constant coining of new categories of sexual identity serves both to demonstrate this and to facilitate its policing.”
