Last year I was asked to speak at a well-known conservative evangelical seminary. Initially, I was surprised this particular institution even wanted to address the topic of homosexuality and the church publicly, let alone invite someone like myself to facilitate the conversation, since it's not my goal to change lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to be straight. So I asked them what they hoped to achieve with this campus-wide lecture. They responded thus:
We fear there might be homosexuals who will want to attend our seminary in the future, and we really don't want that to happen. Just in case some get accepted, because they might lie on their application or just don't tell anyone, we need to know how to handle it.
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