Matthew Wigmore
Matthew is a graduate of Trinity Western University, and a founding member of One TWU, the network of sexual and gender minority students, alumni, and allies (learn more at: onetwu.com) of the university. He recently completed his MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been living and working in the UK since. He focused his research on the intersection of faith, gender and social policy. In his spare time he writes, tries to see as much theatre as possible and plans his next travelling adventure.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Matthew Wigmore
LGBTQ AT TWU
By Matthew Wigmore
November 29, 2017
As a Trinity Western University grad and member of the LGBTQ community, contributor Matthew Wigmore urges caution about seeing tomorrow Supreme Court hearing strictly as a legal fight over religious freedom.
In order to make the claim, with integrity, that TWU’s predicament signals a religious freedom crisis in Canada, there needs to be evidence that a backlash against TWU could have arisen without their exclusion of LGBTQ+ persons through their Community Covenant Through my conversations, and witnessing how TWU has lost in the court of public opinion and is now taking its fight to the Supreme Court of Canada, I can see why the state of religious freedom might indeed seem uncertain to some