Gechter is considering a lawsuit and insists that he did the work to pay for college. In an interview with a gay magazine, Gechter complained “Kids were throwing food at me in the cafeteria. I got 150 hate e-mails. And the thing is, it’s a Christian school… Where’s the love and humility? I’m very cynical about Christian institutions now.”
He insists that porn is an excellent way to work through college: “”Porn enabled me to finish school. Instead of working 40 hours a week as a busboy or a waiter, you do a scene and then you have time to concentrate on schoolwork.” He can make as much as $8000 per scene.
Ironically, this is even bigger news than the fact that the college has a case of swine flu, here — largely because it was believed that the pig was heterosexual.
Grove City College advertises as “authentically Christian” — as opposed to those pretender schools. The handbooks states “Premarital sex, heterosexual or homosexual, or any other such conduct that violates historical Christian standards.” That would appear to cover a career as a gay porn star.
While the action is unpopular among many of us who prefer academic institutions to foster pluralistic thought and lifestyles, the fact is that this college has a right to require compliance with its religious mission. Gechter choose this college and agreed to live under its rigid religious rules. I do not see the legal claim on such a question. Indeed, a court order in his favor would cut deeply into free exercise guarantees of the Constitution.
He appears to have worked about a compromise where he will be allowed his degree but not participate in the graduation — he can then run for the Louisiana Senate seat in 2010.
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