Colleges debate applicant questions that ask students to answer about sexuality, gender
* By Richard Morgan
* Memphis Commercial Appeal
* Posted November 26, 2010 at midnight
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/nov/26/colleges-debate-applicant-questions/ (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/nov/26/colleges-debate-applicant-questions/)
More than 400 of the nation's 3,000 colleges use the Common Application to help high school students who want to apply to many schools at once.
This year, the application added an option for students to detail their religious beliefs. Now, Common Application members are debating the addition of questions about sexuality and gender expression.
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Among the changes being considered is further dividing the mandatory male/female question to accommodate transgender, transsexual and intersex students. And questions of sexual orientation may be added to a series of optional questions about ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital status and veteran status.
I can understand wanting to know ethnicity, marital status and veteran status, but why do they really need to know religious beliefs, gender and sexuality?