Level with me: how bad is Liberty University?

[EliEverIsAHero]

As you can probably gather, the curriculum at Liberty is credible.  But it will require readings from a conservative perspective most likely.  I've heard mixed things about quoting the bible in papers - that you are permitted to, but doesn't count against your minimum number of citations, and here on the forum people say it was expected or required.  There will be nothing racist, sexist or homophobic in the curriculum.  Whether you will be perceived to be any of those things depends entirely on the person you're dealing with.  The folks who think any conservative is those things will certainly see your liberty degree and cast you in that light. Others likely will not. My question is always, how many of those are going to be hiring managers where you're trying to get hired? Would you want to work for a place like that or person like that?  Will it activate unconscious biases even if they don't actively think you're any of those things?  For me, even if only 5-10% of hiring managers would discriminate, it pushes me away from liberty.  If I ever wanted to have a real second career in academia (current plans on teaching are not ambitious) it might hurt relative to a degree from another institution.  This is one of the reasons I stayed clear of LU for a masters degree, even though it would not be a hinderance to employment in my current career field.  I know LU grads who have no trouble in defense, law enforcement, and government.  The big question is what you want to do, what the alternatives are and whether you're OK with closing a small number of doors.

Some of those "-isms" and "-phobias" (homophobia, transphobia, etc.) are most noticeable when someone expresses them overtly - in the case of work by conservative ideologues, these forms of discrimination are often more discreetly cushioned in a "logical" way (e.g. the author framing themselves as a "gender (ideology) skeptic" or "DEI critic") that uses the plausible deniability of empiricism or dissent. 

During the semester I took at Liberty, the focus was more on how religious thought can substantiate certain views on abortion or the death penalty, but the aforementioned type of discourse was also intermittently present.