Post by pavel on Apr 21, 2016 3:34:17 GMT -6
Former ORU student says school is blocking her re-admission over her marriage to a woman
A former Oral Roberts University student says she has been barred from re-enrolling at the school to complete her final semester after administrators became aware that she married a woman, and she alleges school officials encouraged her to terminate her marriage in exchange for re-admission.
Sabrina Bradford, 30, and 54-year-old Ophelia Bradford received a Tulsa County marriage license on Jan. 29, 2015, more than three years after Bradford enrolled at ORU to pursue a social work degree. Before she began her studies at the university in 2011, Bradford — known as Sabrina McGhie at that time — signed ORU’s Code of Honor Pledge, which among other rules states that students agree to refrain from engaging in “unscriptural sexual acts,” including homosexual activity, same-sex marriage and premarital sex.
According to Sabrina Bradford and her attorney, Alyssa Bryant, ORU learned of the marriage on Aug. 25, 2015, after Bradford submitted a financial aid application for her final semester, which indicated she was married. Two days later, they said, Vice President for Student Life Daniel Guajardo and Dean of Women Lori Cook met with her and told her she could not enroll.
“I think there’s some due-process issues and some administrative issues in the sense that they kind of put her in limbo,” Bryant said. “They didn’t tell her she was suspended or expelled. When she asked why (she couldn’t return), they wouldn’t tell her in writing. Everything was kept verbal initially.”
Read more: www.tulsaworld.com/news/education/former-oru-student-says-school-is-blocking-her-re-admission/article_eee74693-22aa-5dec-b690-82dfa4631ab4.html
A former Oral Roberts University student says she has been barred from re-enrolling at the school to complete her final semester after administrators became aware that she married a woman, and she alleges school officials encouraged her to terminate her marriage in exchange for re-admission.
Sabrina Bradford, 30, and 54-year-old Ophelia Bradford received a Tulsa County marriage license on Jan. 29, 2015, more than three years after Bradford enrolled at ORU to pursue a social work degree. Before she began her studies at the university in 2011, Bradford — known as Sabrina McGhie at that time — signed ORU’s Code of Honor Pledge, which among other rules states that students agree to refrain from engaging in “unscriptural sexual acts,” including homosexual activity, same-sex marriage and premarital sex.
According to Sabrina Bradford and her attorney, Alyssa Bryant, ORU learned of the marriage on Aug. 25, 2015, after Bradford submitted a financial aid application for her final semester, which indicated she was married. Two days later, they said, Vice President for Student Life Daniel Guajardo and Dean of Women Lori Cook met with her and told her she could not enroll.
“I think there’s some due-process issues and some administrative issues in the sense that they kind of put her in limbo,” Bryant said. “They didn’t tell her she was suspended or expelled. When she asked why (she couldn’t return), they wouldn’t tell her in writing. Everything was kept verbal initially.”
Read more: www.tulsaworld.com/news/education/former-oru-student-says-school-is-blocking-her-re-admission/article_eee74693-22aa-5dec-b690-82dfa4631ab4.html