Conservative Christian Spring Arbor University has notified Lansing Community College to tell the third largest community college in Michigan the partnership between the two schools is over–before it ever got off the ground.

Spring Arbor University cancels partnership with Lansing Community College due to its policies preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as well as gender identity and expression.

LCC has policies preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as well as gender identity and expression. The college sent a letter to the University laying out the legal expectations for SAU were they to join in partnership with the college, including following Lansing’s Human Rights Ordinance, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

“It is disappointing that SAU would choose to position itself in that way and further alienate many of it’s students and staff,” says Drew Hinkle an openly gay student at SAU. “It’s unfortunate they can’t abide by the law in the city of Lansing.”