![]() We’re Queer.” And just as the rainbow flag was taken down as speedily as possible, the rainbow bench was painted white within twelve hours.Īfterwards, in an even more disturbingly repressive gesture, the Dean of Residence Life and the Residence Director of a dorm (incidentally, the same dorm where this queer dude was an R.A. If this was all that had happened, I wouldn’t be bothering to write about my alma mater right now.īut something else happened: several days later, The Bench-a beloved slab of concrete on the campus that is frequently (and licitly) tagged with spray paint by various student groups throughout the year-was painted with rainbow stripes and the words “We Can’t Be Erased. ![]() Personally, I don’t blame the administration for removing a flag whose display they hadn’t authorized. The next morning, once people spotted it, the flag was promptly taken down (but not before eyewitnesses snapped some pictures and a student’s mother raged against it to Fox News columnist Todd Starnes: “When the gay pride flag flies at your Christian college, it is a direct attack on the Word of God, It’s shameful…” ). Towards the end of April, a rainbow flag was surreptitiously hung in the school’s cafeteria, appearing among dozens of national flags. Queerness keeps popping up at Wheaton College, and the evangelical flagship keeps pushing it down.
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