The TikTok shows the students handing their interim president Pride flags and has already amassed more three million views and 4k comments. Guillot told CNN that she told Menjares, 'We're not going to stop until the policy changes.' Adapted from: File:Nuvola Ugandan flag.svg using colors from File:Gay flag.svg Author: File:Nuvola Ugandan flag.svg: Antigoni File:Gay flag.svg: derivative work Wikignome0529 Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Nuvola LGBT flag borderless.svg: SVG development The source code of this SVG is valid. Sign up for our new free Indy100 weekly newsletterĪccording to CNN, approximately 50 students participated in the symbolic protest. Seattle Pacific University is a private Christian school founded in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church. This means employees may not be in same-sex relationships. The small act of defiance organized by student Chloe Guillot was in response to a policy the school made in May indicating employees must conduct themselves in a lifestyle that 'reflect a traditional view on Biblical marriage and sexuality, as an expression of long-held church teaching and biblical interpretation.' In a TikTok video, students graduating from the private Christian school approached the interim president Pete Menjares with a Pride flag in exchange for their diploma, opting-out of shaking Menjares' hand. Students graduating from Seattle Pacific University went viral for protesting their school's anti-LGBTQ+ hiring policy.
