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LGBTQ+ stories, evidence, and accountability at Oral Roberts University
Document what policy says. Preserve what people lived. Make the institution answerable to both.
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What the current policy says
ORU’s current regulations prohibit “any homosexual behavior” and attach automatic-suspension language to disobedience of the University rules.
Featured evidence
Every material assertion carries its source, locator, status, limits, rights, response state, and verification date. The interface asks you to inspect—not simply trust.
The University Regulations page contains the quoted conduct rule and suspension language in the current public regulations.
Inspect full recordThe 1985 OCR letter identifies specific provisions rather than a blanket Title IX exemption.
Inspect full recordThe FY2025 Single Audit schedule reports a total federal-award figure of $47,349,716 with important caveats about loans and balances.
Inspect full recordWhy these records belong together
Public records can document what an institution requires. Survivor accounts can document how those rules were encountered, understood, and lived. Neither should be forced to impersonate the other.
Out ORU keeps a policy, an allegation, a first-person account, an advocacy argument, and a judicial holding visibly distinct—then shows the relationships among them.
Stories
Story space remains empty until real people approve exact publication versions. The absence of a story is more honest than a composite, a private message recast as copy, or consent assumed from access.
Consent-cleared stories
The story architecture is ready for anonymous, pseudonymous, or named attribution. Publication is waiting for version-specific consent—not material.
Visit the Stories pageTotal expenditures of federal awards
Public money, without the headline trick
The reported total includes federal direct student loans and a Perkins amount whose note says no Perkins loans were disbursed during FY2025. It is not unrestricted government revenue and is not added to HEERF awards, tax status, or Form 990 revenue.
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A federal letter, an organizing action, a reported sermon, a court holding, and a funding record appear together without being treated as equivalent evidence.
Verified primary record; limited to the listed provisions.
Title and date verified; the full recording is unavailable and the contextual transcript is blocked.
Last located merits disposition as of 2026-07-29; recheck docket before launch.
Audit reports $47,349,716 in total expenditures of federal awards.
Methodology
Sources sit beside claims. Allegations stay allegations. Public-money types remain separate. Missing media context stays missing. Corrections leave a trail.
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