IFAS | Freedom Writer | January/February 1999 | gayalumni.html

School threatens to arrest gay alumni

Greenville, South Carolina – Although Bob Jones University is not the first fundamentalist school to have gay alumni, it is the first to threaten their arrest.

Wayne Mouritzen is a 60 year-old retired gay minister, and a graduate of Bob Jones U. Last October he received a letter from the university which stated, "As long as you are living as a homosexual, you, of course, would not be welcome on the campus and would be arrested for trespassing if you did visit."

Bob Jones University doesn't need to worry about losing its tax-exempt status. It voluntarily gave up its tax-exempt status in 1970, when it banned interracial dating.

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