Pseudo-Homosexuality

I don’t visit tons of college campuses, but I do visit several per year. And every since I was a college student at a Christian college I’ve been bothered by this.

What is that? It’s something I call "pseudo-homosexualality." I know that isn’t a word, but once I describe it you’ll recognize it straight away. I’ve seen it on every Christian college campus I’ve been on in the last few years. Wheaton, Trinity, Cornerstone, Cedarville, Grace, Huntington, and of course my alma mater, Moody.

What? It looks like this. You are sitting there in a college coffee shop, minding your own business. And two completely straight guys are taking turns rubbing one another’s feet at the table next to you. If you weren’t on a Christian campus, say if you were at the local Starbucks, you would immediately say to yourself, "Whatever, they’re gay. Not for me but whatever." But on a Christian campus you see stuff like that all the time. Other examples: Girls holding hands for long periods of time. Girls cuddling on couches. Guys giving one another extended backrubs in public. Two girls rubbing lotion on one another’s hands in chapel. Both genders being far too flirtatious with the same sex in public.

I am not saying that what they are doing makes them gay. All I am observing is that if this behavior were happening outside of the "safety of a Christian college bubble" it would automatically be labeled as homosexual. Instead… it’s not really homosexual behavior since the people are straight, it just looks homosexual.

I don’t want this to be misread as gay hate speach. (Though, I believe any sex of any kind outside of the marriage of a man/woman is against God’s law. Gay or straight.) This is just an observation from something I see at all Christian campuses I visit. There is a ton of overly feminine behavior out of the guys!

Not to pick on Grace simply because I’m here now. But, the decor in most of the buildings is very feminine. To the point where I wondered if they were interested in attracting guys at all? Maybe it’s the same at all the colleges we visit. But I’m noticing it here. I’ll have to be on the look out for that at other colleges.