America’s Christian universities are sprinting toward the culture while dragging their biblical foundations behind them like yesterday’s trash.
Some of the nation’s most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are now hosting separate LGBTQ-focused graduation ceremonies complete with drag performances, “Queer Proms” and identity-based celebrations centered on sexuality and gender ideology.
According to Fox News Digital, at least 20 Catholic-affiliated schools have held or plan to hold so-called “lavender graduations” this spring. The events are marketed as ceremonies to “honor and celebrate the achievements of our LGBTQ+ graduates.”
Among the schools participating are Georgetown University, Boston College, Fordham University, Seattle University and University of San Francisco.
At Seattle University, the school’s website states its “Lavender Celebration” will include “a special performance” from “Sativa the Drag Queen.”
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Over at University of San Francisco, the school plans to host a “Queer Prom” directly after its “Lavender Commencement.”
Other universities are distributing LGBTQ-themed cords and stoles while hosting keynote speakers and celebrations focused entirely on sexual identity politics.
This is what institutional surrender looks like.
These universities still market themselves with Christian branding while openly celebrating ideas that collide headfirst with Scripture. Genesis says God created mankind male and female. Romans warns believers not to conform to the world. The New Testament calls Christians to holiness, repentance and transformation through Christ. Modern university leadership looked at all of that and decided drag shows were the future.
The Cardinal Newman Society blasted the ceremonies in comments reported by Fox News.
“Although intended as a compassionate gesture to students, the ceremonies reinforce harmful ideologies about sexuality and gender that contradict Catholic teaching,” the group said.
“They potentially lead students into sinful activity and undermine a Catholic college’s claim to teach the truths of the Catholic faith,” the organization continued.
The group also reiterated church teaching that same-sex attraction “is not itself a sin,” while describing such attractions as “objectively disordered.”
The collapse is happening in plain sight. Institutions built on Christian doctrine are now repackaging the spirit of the age as compassion and calling rebellion “inclusion.” Administrators who would never dare offend modern activists seem perfectly comfortable offending generations of faithful Christians who supported these schools, expecting biblical integrity instead of ideological theater.
Christian colleges once existed to shape young believers in truth. Many are now functioning as public relations arms for the culture’s latest moral revolution. And the revolution never stops demanding more.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a journalism background from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and at the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
