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Do not fill this in! === Allegations of LGBTQ discrimination on campus === On August 25, 2015, ORU Administration learned of student Sabrina Bradford's recent marriage to a woman, and two days later she was informed she was not welcome back on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vicent |first=Samantha |title=Former ORU student says school is blocking her re-admission over her marriage to a woman |url=https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/former-oru-student-says-school-is-blocking-her-re-admission-over-her-marriage-to-a/article_eee74693-22aa-5dec-b690-82dfa4631ab4.html |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Tulsa World |language=en}}</ref> In March 2006 eight peaceful protesters were arrested while rallying across the street from ORU's main entrance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first=Susan |title=ORU policy protest ends in eight arrests The demonstrators face trespassing complaints. |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2006/03/21/oru-policy-protest-ends-in-eight-arrestsbrthe-demonstrators-face-trespassing-complaints/61895207007/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}</ref> Ronnie Roberts, the son of Oral Roberts, came out as gay to the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, in the early 1980s. Six months later, Ronnie Roberts committed suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leo |date=2010-07-09 |title=Oral Roberts' gay grandson speaks out |url=https://dallasvoice.com/oral-roberts-gay-grandson-speaks-out/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Dallas Voice |language=en-US}}</ref> As of December 7, 2021, an online petition to "Tell Oral Roberts University: Change your anti-LGBTQ honor code" had gained over 10,000 signatures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cummings |first=Lily |date=2021-12-07 |title=Petition calls on ORU to make honor code more inclusive |url=https://ktul.com/news/local/petition-calling-on-oru-to-make-its-honor-code-more-inclusive-grows |access-date=2022-10-06 |publisher=KTUL |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Network |first=Action |title=Tell Oral Roberts University: Change your anti-LGBTQ honor code |url=https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-oral-roberts-university-change-your-anti-lgbtq-honor-code |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=actionnetwork.org |language=en-US}}</ref> In March 2021, the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, or REAP, filed a class action lawsuit, ''Hunter v. the U.S. Department of Education'', on March 26, 2021, against this campus and other named campuses citing the abuses that thousands of LGBTQ+ students endured at these colleges and universities over the years. LGBTQ+ students document their own direct discrimination, harassment and negative harms in the filing. Those abuses include "conversion therapy, expulsion, denial of housing and health care, sexual and physical abuse and harassment." The abuses also include the "less visible, but no less damaging, consequences of institutionalized shame, fear, anxiety, and loneliness."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Hartzler Wasn't Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He's Suing. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/religious-universities-lgbtq-students-title-ix-lawsuit-00033373 |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref> On November 1, 2017, Billy Wilson preaches chapel service titled, "Holy Sex" and says, "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable, they are put to death."<ref>{{Citation |last=University |first=Oral Roberts |title=ORU Chapel 11/01/17 "Holy Sex" by Dr. William M. Wilson |date=2017-11-07 |url=https://vimeo.com/241784660 |access-date=2022-10-06}}</ref> Within three months of graduation, Andrew Hartzler joined a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to strike down a religious exemption provision in U.S. civil rights law that allows ORU and other schools to receive federal funds despite such discriminatory policies. The lawsuit contends it is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and of the students' equal protection rights.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-26 |title=A Gay Oral Roberts University Graduate's Painful Story |url=https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/26/gay-oral-roberts-university-graduates-painful-story |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=The Advocate |language=en}}</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. 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