In October of 2015, I received one of those vaguely mysterious e-mails which journalists sometimes get. It came from an account under the name of “K. Lee,” generic enough to be un-Googleable. “I wasn’t sure to whom to send this message,” the note began. “I am gay and teach at a member institution of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.”
That got my attention. The council, known as the C.C.C.U., is America’s most prominent association of evangelical Protestant schools. A few weeks earlier, two schools had left the organization after announcing that they would start hiring married gay and lesbian faculty, an unacceptable theological position for most member institutions. If this e-mail was really from a gay faculty member at a C.C.C.U. school, the sender’s identity would likely need to remain a secret. Otherwise, he or she would probably be fired. . . .
The article:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-hidden-life-of-a-christian-college-professor
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