Christian school to pay $10,000 to gay student banned from graduation after coming outhttps://www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/23/tenneesee-christian-school-gay-graduation-payout/ 🔗Tom Hutt-Dixon (23 June 2026)
Morgan Armstrong sued Tennessee Christian Preparatory School in Cleveland after it banned her from the ceremony and withheld her diploma.
Under the settlement she received the payout and her diploma, and the school is barred from making disparaging comments about her to colleges.
Armstrong, a star basketball player, had come out on social media, posting photos with her girlfriend captioned "cat's out of the bag."
She then privately messaged friends asking them to like the post, writing: "Go and comment on my post, I have some ruthless Trump supporting 'Jesus' mfs on there."
The school then summoned her family and presented a letter accusing her of "a disparaging remark, reflecting the people at Tennessee Christian", barring her from graduation and threatening to forward her posts to colleges, as per WSMV4.
Her attorney, Daniel Horwitz, said Armstrong had never posted anything about the school, and that it had ignored its own policy, under which a first social media violation should bring just a one-day suspension.
On the day she was due to graduate, Armstrong and her family protested across the street.
