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The Depravity of St. Olaf College

12/4/2017

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St. Olaf College is a school of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It is a private liberal arts college located in Northfield, Minnesota. Many parents send their children to St. Olaf believing they will be going to a Christian college and will learn about the Christian faith, deepening their faith with godly teachers leading the way. 
 
This could not be further from the truth. As is evident in this entire website, the ELCA has turned its back on the truth and the authority of Scripture, and when you take a look at this ELCA-affiliated institution, it is easy to surmise that St. Olaf College has done the same.
 
See the following:
 
Related to Sex
 
- The St. Olaf College website provides free condoms and lubricant at the school's wellness center. The school also details other forms of contraception students can consider. See below and here. 
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- St. Olaf’s Sexual Health “Helpful Links” page lists the National Gay and Lesbian Hotline. (See here) 
 
- The St. Olaf website has a section called "CitizenBlog" which has an article about the The Vagina Monologues, a play performed on the campus of St. Olaf. The article talks about one monologue often presented called “The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could.” Here is how the article describes the monologue.  “(A)n underage girl recounts having been given alcohol and then having sex with an adult woman––her female abuser is portrayed positively as someone ‘rescuing’ her from the sexually abusive men of her past…” (See here)
- St. Olaf also has a student group called "GLOW!" It “stands for ‘Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever!’, and is a student organization comprised of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual persons. GLOW! helps to educate, provide resources for and foster acceptance and support for self-identified GLBT persons with and through the alliance of all sexual orientations and gender identities.” (see here) 
 
- St. Olaf offers 16 different LGBTQ Scholarships. (see here)
 
- Did you know that “The St. Olaf College Student Congregation has been a Reconciling In Christ congregation since 1989. Together, we advocate for the full welcome, inclusion, and equity of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) students in all aspects of the life of our congregation and community.” (see here) 

​- The St. Olaf College Students Activities Committee posted  pictures on its Facebook page. Among the photos are two men kissing. (See here)


- St. Olaf's "Champion of the Hill" competition, during Parents Weekend I believe, a man dressed as a women performed a dance routine. He was voted the "Champion of the Hill" and announced "This is the years of the queers." (see video here and pictures of the competition here) 

- St. Olaf has a "Students for Reproductive Rights" group. This disturbing club recently hosted a “Birth Control Methods w/ Planned Parenthood!” event as well as “Sex Toys 101” event. (See below)

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Planned Parenthood

- St. Olaf has a “Helpful Links” page on their website that includes a link to Planned Parenthood. (see here) 

 
- The college website has a page titled “Local Health Providers” where St. Olaf gives Apple Valley Planned Parenthood’s phone number and a link to Planned Parenthood. (See here)


Transgender
 
- St. Olaf must have been mighty proud to post this story about a transgender alumna’s appointment to White House staff. (see here)

- Transgender artist, Zackary Drucker, spoke a number of times in 2015, at St. Olaf College, including a “CILA Faculty Lunch Conversation on Trans-Sensitivity Awareness.” (see here) 
 
- There is a “Gender and Sexuality Center” at St. Olaf that “seeks to educate, increase awareness, and create dialogue around issues of gender and sexuality, including feminism, queer and transgender issues, and safer sex practices, as well as the intersectional effects of these issues.” (see here) 
 
- St. Olaf College's website has a section of pages called “The Edit Desk: A guide to student journalism at St. Olaf.” On the main page they have a link to an article. Under that link it says, “The Radical Copyeditor provides a starting point for determining what language to use in articles that reference transgender people or transgender issues.” That article is written from a transgender supportive view. (see here) 
 
- The St. Olaf Sociology/Anthropology Department has offered a class called,
“GLBT Lives and Issues.” Here is the class description:

“This course explores the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from several social science perspectives. Students examine whether gender and sexual orientation (both heterosexual and homosexual) are socially constructed or biologically natural, and what cross-cultural and historical examples can tell us. Students also study controversies over the family and religious status of GLBT people, why homosexuality has become such a political issue, and movements for change. Offered during interim.” (see here and here) 
 
Other Religions


God's Word is clear that Christ is the only way to the Father. Yet . . .

- St. Olaf College employees Anant Rambachan as a Professor of Religion. His school profile says “Prof. Rambachan has been involved in the field of interreligious relations and dialogue for over twenty-five years, as a Hindu participant and analyst” and “Prof. Rambachan has traveled and lectured in many part of the world and teaches regularly at several Hindu temples in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.” (see here) 
 
- On campus is a Muslim Student Association. (see here) 
 
- The St. Olaf student-run radio station, KSTO, has a program called “The Hour of Islam.” (see here) 
 
- St. Olaf has a program celebrating Diwali, “the Hindu festival of lights that is celebrated every year during the Fall season…During Diwali, we worship goddess Laxmi, who is the goddess of wealth and prosperity.” (see here) 
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Additional Information

- If you attend St. Olaf College, you will find that they hold "Drag Balls." It is described as “An annual Pause dance at which students are encouraged to dress in drag, whatever that means to them and their unique wardrobes. Part of this tradition includes performances on stage from practiced drag entertainers, with a Q&A panel with the guest performers preceding the dance.” (see here)
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- Angela Davis was brought to St. Olaf to speak. She is a "a two-time Communist Party vice presidential candidate." See (here and here)
 

- What ELCA college doesn't have its Palestinian supporters or Anti-Israel activists? At St. Olaf there is a group called "Oles for Justice in Palestine." (see here)

- This year the "Christian" college hosted a “Ghosts of St. Olaf tour" which was led by Vice President for Student Life Greg Kneser. (see here)



Politics and Race
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Beware if you are a conservative or Republican.

The article titles say it all:


- "Conservative Students Say They Have Been ‘Violently Threatened’ at Lutheran College." (see here) 

- "Higher Education: No Safe Spaces For Conservatives." (see here)

- "Outnumbered and 'threatened,' some conservatives are leaving St. Olaf College." (see here)


Racial problems? St. Olaf College has that too:
 
- "‘Student Coup’ at St. Olaf College: Students Block Buildings, Classes Shut Down Over Racial Unrest." (see here) 

- "St. Olaf President Says Racist Note Was 'Fabricated.'" (see here) 
 
- "The Farce at St. Olaf." (see here) 
 
It truly is disturbing what is happening at this Evangelical Lutheran Church in America college. I would pray diligently if you are trying to decide to go to or send your college-age children here. 

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Exposing the ELCA has shared many other disturbing stories concerning St. Olaf College over the last few years. They can be found here. 
 


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12/6/2017 05:03:15 am

St. Olaf didn't start the insurrection against God and His Word. The ELCA has been instigating trickle-down depravity for decades. Like parent, like offspring. Whatever number of St. Olaf students were raised in ELCA churches probably see no difference between their pretend-Christian college and the pretend-Christian denomination of which their local church is an acquiescent or eager part.

Before they came to St. Olaf, maybe they were a part of an ELCA youth gathering in which their bishop told them how proud he is to publicly flout the Bible's condemnation of his sexual sin: https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/elca-bishop-goes-public-telling-teenagers-i-am-a-gay-man

Maybe they were presented with a sin-expunging ELCA "youth Bible" years before they came to St. Olaf: https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/elca-youth-bible-promotes-homosexuality

Maybe the future St. Olafites attended a youth camp in which their ELCA bishop told them everyone's going to heaven because "..it's not about what we believe, it's about the fact that God believes in us." https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/elca-bishop-teaches-universalism-to-youth

Catholic professor Anthony Esolen’s indictment of secular and poseur-Catholic universities applies equally to faith-undermining poseur-Lutheran schools like St. Olaf:

". . . what defense do the young people have? Their attendance at Mass [ELCA churches] for 18 years? Let’s be honest. God sends us graces in the sacraments, and they have a power which no one of us may dare to circumscribe. But God does not recommend therefore that we be stupid. We are to be as wise as serpents, says the Lord, not as brainless as pigeons.

"What will the young people have heard at Mass [ELCA churches], or what will they have seen in a modern anesthetic church? Niceness, self-celebration; little about the terrible and invigorating battle that will end only when this old earth is reduced to cinders. They will not hear, in the ears of their minds, the brave and honest cry of the poet of “Abide with Me,” or the world-defying clarion of “Lo, He Comes.” They will have egotism, presumption, political posturing, Lady Sentimentality, musical smiley faces, and pink icing. Pigeons, against hawks. Or lions.

"If the young people end their day with evening prayer, they will hear that the devil prowls about the world like a roaring lion, seeking whom to devour. They do not end their day with evening prayer. They end it in the exhaustion of a late-night cram session, chatter with friends, or a debauch. Thus prepared, they rise up the next morning to confront professors who either despise their faith or, worse, who simply take it for granted that the faith has nothing to say about anything important in life. . . .

"They may have read a good book here and there, and sometimes under the direction of a teacher who is not unremittingly hostile to the faith. There are even faithful professors everywhere among the pagans, sometimes as many as three or four against a hundred. And there are groups of faithful Catholics [and faithful Lutherans], too, banding together for mutual support and instruction. It is better for you to join such a group in partibus hostilibus than to have your faith spinal-tapped by pleasant semi-Catholics at St. Eustaby [or pleasant semi-Lutherans at St. Olaf]. But do not underestimate the threat.”

Lambs to the Slaughter — https://journal.newmansociety.org/2017/11/lambs-slaughter-catholic-students-secular-colleges/

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