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It's like you're failing everyone at once and you're failing your faith tradition and you're failing God. You can almost go down in an instant with one night of having sex. That is a pretty precarious way to live, says Freitas. Women at evangelical colleges are expected to wait passively but at the same time are under extreme pressures to marry the socalled senior scramble describes the mad dash to find a husband by graduation." The experiences of gay and lesbian students at evangelical colleges were mixed. Freitas recalls, for instance, one breezily bisexual female student, known by the pseudonym Molly Bainbridge, who had found her own community, one she called Heretics Anonymous. Yet, another evangelical college student, "Steven Parsons," was probably, Freitas says, her most heart-breaking interview. Attracted to other men though he didn't want to accept it, he was an example of someone who was just shattered by his sexual identity not fitting into whats being preached. On the flipside at evangelical campuses, what I saw that I didnt see at other places was a level of integrated community. Talk about educating the whole person. Ive never seen anything like it," Freitas says. "Watching a community build itself around shared values was pretty extraordinary and I think really fulfilling for most of the students even if it can be stressful." "It's not like I'm advocating, 'You all should become evangelical colleges,' but I do think the way campus community is formed is pretty fantastic," Freitas continues. "One of the things I saw at other [spiritual] campuses was such a yearning to express the personal, [for students] to express themselves -- and meeting up with such roadblocks." Elizabeth Redden
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