{"id":147417,"date":"2025-05-29T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147417"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:47:46","slug":"tennessee-school-accused-of-withholding-students-diploma-after-she-comes-out-as-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147417","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tennessee School Accused of Withholding Student\u2019s Diploma After She Comes Out as Gay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodunlocked.com\/high-school-seniors-diploma-withheld-after-coming-out-as-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood Unlocked:<\/a> &#8220;A Tennessee high school senior\u2019s high school diploma was withheld after coming out as gay, sparking public outrage, a family protest, and a formal lawsuit. Morgan Armstrong, a graduating senior at Tennessee Christian Preparatory School, alleges that the school is punishing her for publicly revealing her sexuality. According to court filings, Armstrong posted about her identity on social media and was subsequently suspended. She was informed that her diploma would not be mailed as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8230;In a statement released to the press, Tennessee Christian Preparatory School said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cAs of 11:00 AM on May 22, we have yet to be served with process for the alleged lawsuit. The administration and Board of Trustees express deep disappointment over the inaccuracies contained in the alleged filing by Daniel A. Horwitz with Horwitz Law in Nashville.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They added that despite the conflict, they are\u00a0<strong>\u201cfully committed to delivering Morgan Armstrong\u2019s diploma\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and insist their goal remains the\u00a0<strong>academic and personal success<\/strong>\u00a0of all students.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood Unlocked: &#8220;A Tennessee high school senior\u2019s high school diploma was withheld after coming out as gay, sparking public outrage, a family protest, and a formal lawsuit. Morgan Armstrong, a graduating senior at Tennessee Christian Preparatory School, alleges that the school is punishing her for publicly revealing her sexuality. According to court filings, Armstrong posted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147418,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147417\/revisions\/147418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}