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Lavender Graduation
Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 21, 2016 | Deborah Lambert

Posted on 05/23/2016 7:52:55 AM PDT by Academiadotorg

Lavender Graduation is all the rage in some circles these days, especially at the U. of Maryland where event sponsors at the LGBT Equity Center note that "each LGBTQA+ graduate will receive a rainbow tassel and a certificate of achievement. This event also provides an opportunity for our community to come together and honor those among us who have worked to make College Park a better place for LGBTQ+ people," according to the website.

Students and Lavender grads also receive occasional invites to a Queer Lunch from the LGBT Equity Center, which advises guests that "We'll bring the board games, the card games, the music, and the queer space."

LGBT Studies at the University of Maryland currently offers a certificate and minor in the program. Some of the courses offered include "Theories of Sexuality and Literature"; "Seminar in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies: Queer Theory," and "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Community Organization Internship."

The banner on the home page of LGBT studies says "Fear the Turtle, Queer the Turtle," which refers to Testudo, the name of the diamondback terrapin that became the school’s mascot in 1932.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: lavendergraduation; lgbtqa; umd
How much longer until they paint the Terrapin lavender?
1 posted on 05/23/2016 7:52:55 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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All this attention and accommodation, not to mention 24-7 news stories, about less than 3% of the total population...

This is going beyond the point of ridiculousness....


3 posted on 05/23/2016 7:58:56 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Academiadotorg

The fruits (no pun intended) of a post-Christian America.


4 posted on 05/23/2016 8:00:09 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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ISIS, China, North Korea, Russia...They don’t have to worry about fighting a war with the USA...They just sit back and watch us self destroy ourselves......


5 posted on 05/23/2016 8:01:26 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Academiadotorg

LGBTQA+ ? What’s the A+? “Now 50% more queer, and extra nuts”?


6 posted on 05/23/2016 8:01:56 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Academiadotorg

Removing Reason from the human animal.

Sex Ed-—Gender Theory is all pure Marxism-—to reduce human beings into irrational, godless animals.....total dehumanization to destroy concepts of male/female and Mother and Father so children no longer can have the Christian Worldview/concepts (only embedded inside the Natural Family—not in group-think artificial institutions of puerile peer group think). Dependency is the only thing embedded into children—along with an artificial, controlled, irrational Reality..

Reason and Logic (Natural Law Theory—Classical Christian Education was removed by the evil Humanist John Dewey back in 1930 to destroy the Minds (critical thinking) of the next generation. We are seeing the fruits.

Remove Reason, Logic and Truth (God) and you destroy that which created the Age of Reason, Modern Science and the US Constitution. (Only the Christian Worldview gave us Free Will (choice) and Individualism—the ability to think outside the herd.

Now, we are regressing back to slavery, irrationality, arbitrary, pagan/hindu “truths” which conflict with Reality/Truth/God’s Laws (Natural Law—Common Sense.)


7 posted on 05/23/2016 8:02:55 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Academiadotorg

Too bad the heterosexuals aren’t getting special recognition for being normal.


8 posted on 05/23/2016 8:09:00 AM PDT by NEMDF
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How about special diplomas for sodomy. Then special certificates of
achievement for B&D, S&M, pedos, trannies, furries, felchers, zoos, etc.
Magna cum laude.


9 posted on 05/23/2016 8:13:18 AM PDT by mumblypeg (My Glock goes to the ladies' room with me. It identifies as my bodyguard.)
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To: Academiadotorg

A rainbow tassel....well isn’t that special? (cue Dana Carey’s voiceover)


10 posted on 05/23/2016 8:14:32 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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invites to a Queer Lunch from the LGBT Equity Center

OMG afraid to ask what is served at a Queer Lunch!


11 posted on 05/23/2016 8:33:11 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Academiadotorg

Enabling and rewarding delusions.


12 posted on 05/23/2016 10:00:12 AM PDT by aquila48
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Further proof it’s all about the AtTeNtIoN!!!!


13 posted on 05/23/2016 10:02:56 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: aquila48

which sounds like a good title for a Modern Language Association panel.


14 posted on 05/23/2016 10:52:26 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

FAAAAAAAABULOUS!!!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


15 posted on 05/23/2016 8:51:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (0bama's insane rantings prove that power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.)
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Google Lavender Graduation. You will be amazed.


16 posted on 05/23/2016 8:55:01 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I am afraid to imagine what the celebration will be like for other paraphiliacs. Perhaps next year will be the coming out of necrophiliacs, for example.


17 posted on 05/24/2016 3:55:24 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: noiseman

I love how they keep adding abbreviations.

I think A means “a$$hole”.

Maybe “asexual” - which would be a whole other class from these jackasses and shouldn’t be tied in with them at all.

The plus + I guess means every single thing NOT plain boring heterosexual, and we gave up on those damned abbreviations finally.


18 posted on 05/24/2016 6:56:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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