‘Should’ve Run the Score Up Worse’: Basketball Fans Turn On Team That Lost by 94 Points After Discovering School’s Problematic LGBTQ Policies

Ahmad Austin Jr.Dec 11th, 2023, 4:03 pm
 
Oak Hills Christian College roster

Oak Hills Christian College

Sympathy for a college basketball team after a brutal loss quickly evaporated when the internet discovered the school’s LGBTQ policies.

On Sunday, the North Dakota State men’s basketball team completely obliterated Oak Hills Christian College 108-14. It was a puzzling matchup from the onset considering the fact that NDSU is a Division I school and OHCC — as one might expect from the score — is not.

According to the school’s basketball roster, the Wolfpack has no players over 6-foot-4. The NDSU Bison, on the other hand, have just a handful of players under that height. Based on size alone, Oak Hills was severely outmatched.

Oak Hills also has a significantly smaller pool of talent to choose from. The Department of Education lists its undergraduate enrollment at just 80 students. North Dakota State has nearly 10,000.

Initially, North Dakota state was criticized for scheduling such a lopsided game.

Not long after, however, that tune began to change when Twitter users came across Oak Hills’ Wikipedia page. A section labeled “LGBT prohibition” details the school’s policies regarding LGBT issues and states that homosexuality is forbidden.

A 2015 article from The Column, which is cited on the Wikipedia page, reported that employment applications for the college require applicants to agree to and sign a document declaring they have not engaged in “sexually immoral” acts.

“I further declare that with regard to my personal moral and ethical character and conduct as of this date,” the document said, “I am not engaging, will not engage, nor have I been in the past five years engaged in sexually immoral (fornication, adultery, rape, homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, and the like) or abusive (physical or sexual) conduct, as defined by scripture or state law.”

Users went from criticizing NDSU to praising them for running the score up.

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