Lawsuit alleges LGBTQ discrimination at Christian colleges: ‘I felt so unwelcome, and it hurt so much to be there’

CHICAGO – Megan Steffen had completed all her college coursework at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and was at home with her parents in Michigan, waiting to graduate, when she got an email from the school, telling her an administrator needed to talk with her.

She agreed to a meeting via Zoom, where she learned that faculty members at the conservative Christian college had raised objections to her graduation.

Then the two administrators on the Zoom call began asking questions, among them: Had Steffen ever had romantic or sexual relations with a woman? Had she ever dated men? Did she envision dating women in the future?

Steffen, who had faced pushback at Moody ever since coming out as a lesbian two years before, answered the questions