In addition to the previously mentioned items, students can’t wear sunglasses or offensive clothing in class. Also specifically forbidden are “decorative orthodontic appliances,” sagging pants, pajamas and bare feet.

But that’s not all. The dress code also bans ” … clothing associated with women’s garb (dresses, tops, tunics, purses, pumps, etc.) on the Morehouse campus or at College-sponsored events.”

The school’s vice president of student services, William Bynum, said, “We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress in a way we do not expect in Morehouse men.”

So is the policy discriminating against gays?

The school’s gay organization, Morehouse Safe Space, doesn’t think so. It endorsed the measure by a vote of 24-3.

Yet some say the policy shows a narrow-mindedness not fitting for a school that counts Martin Luther King Jr. as one of its alumni.

On Twirlit.com, Jessica Madison wrote: “… it doesn’t look good for the school of Martin Luther King Jr. to be closing its doors to men trying to live their own dream as black and successful homosexual men, who just so happen like to sport a purse as well.”

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