Wheaton College (Illinois)

===LGBT prohibition===
Students and employees at Wheaton must sign a Community Covenant that classifies "homosexual behavior" as a form of [[sin|immorality condemned by scripture]] which they must avoid. The college is listed among the least hospitable in the United States for LGBT students by [[Campus Pride]] and [[The Princeton Review]] because, among other reasons, the college featured an [[ex-gay movement]] speaker in a chapel service.<ref name="Vivanco2016">{{cite news |last=Vivanco |first=Leonor |date=August 31, 2016 |title=Lists rank Wheaton College among worst schools for LGBTQ students |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-wheaton-college-anti-gay-lists-met-20160831-story.html |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=August 29, 2021}}</ref>

In 2014 Wheaton hired a gay Christian blogger, Julie Rodgers, as a ministry associate who could reach out to [[LGBT]] students while being committed to celibacy. Rodgers reports that college officials asked her not to identify herself as gay and to portray being gay only as a form of "brokenness" rather than something to be celebrated. Having shifted in her position on same-sex marriage, Rodgers could no longer endorse Wheaton's policy on sexual ethics, and resigned from Wheaton in 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rodgers |first=Julie |date=February 23, 2016 |title=How a Leading Christian College Turned Against Its Gay Leader |url=https://time.com/4233666/wheaton-college-gay-leader/ |magazine=Time |access-date=August 29, 2021}}</ref>