{"id":18160,"date":"2015-02-25T00:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2015-02-25T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:06:38","slug":"southern-virginia-university-to-work-on-policy-after-gay-students-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/southern-virginia-university-to-work-on-policy-after-gay-students-complaint.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Southern Virginia University to work on policy after gay student&#8217;s complaint&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Buena_Vista_Virginia.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18161\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Buena_Vista_Virginia-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"SVU's home town\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buena Vista, Virginia, home of Southern Virginia University<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I found this story (which was brought to my notice by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/cassandrah\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cassandra Hedelius<\/a>) particularly interesting, in view of the fact that\u00a0I\u2019ve known <a href=\"http:\/\/svu.edu\/directory\/madison-u-sowell\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Madison Sowell<\/a> since just before our freshman year at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/virginia\/southern-virginia-university-to-work-on-policy-after-gay-student\/article_9bc6e37a-b22d-514b-a9ed-916e6baf9b5b.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/virginia\/southern-virginia-university-to-work-on-policy-after-gay-student\/article_9bc6e37a-b22d-514b-a9ed-916e6baf9b5b.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Cassandra\u00a0Hedelius\u2019s comment on the matter (she\u2019s a lawyer): \u00a0\u201c<span style=\"color: #141823;\">It\u2019s a canary in the coal mine for all religious schools \u2014 federal pressure will come soon, and hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I found this story (which was brought to my notice by Cassandra Hedelius) particularly interesting, in view of the fact that\u00a0I\u2019ve known Dr. Madison Sowell since just before our freshman year at Brigham Young University. \u00a0 http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/virginia\/southern-virginia-university-to-work-on-policy-after-gay-student\/article_9bc6e37a-b22d-514b-a9ed-916e6baf9b5b.html \u00a0 I agree with Cassandra\u00a0Hedelius\u2019s comment on the matter (she\u2019s a lawyer): \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a canary in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Southern Virginia University to work on policy after gay student&#039;s complaint&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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