Belmont Abbey College Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === LGBTQ+ stance === In 2016, the college, along with other religious colleges and universities throughout the United States, came under increasing criticism from [[LGBT]] activists for refusing to implement [[Discrimination|anti-discrimination]] policies on behalf of [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[Bisexuality|bisexual]], and [[transgender]] students. Belmont Abbey College argued that its status as a primarily Catholic institution was in conflict with these anti-discrimination policies. In a statement, the college claimed that such policies would "abdicate the responsibility of the college community as a whole to act in accord with its fundamental identity as a community which publicly identifies itself as in communion with the Catholic Church."<ref>{{cite web|title = Religious colleges granted Title IX waivers on LGBT issues targeted by activists - The College Fix|url = http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25768/|website = The College Fix| date=7 January 2016 |access-date = 2016-01-12|language = en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page