Posted on 10/02/2015 6:41:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Colorado School of Mines has taken speech codes to a nonsensical level. More than that, they are making it up as they go along.
Those are the only conclusions you can draw from a the events surrounding a suit filed by a former football player at the school who wanted to donate money to the athletic department. What happens next reads like a dystopian nightmare.
Michael Lucas donated $2,500 to the Colorado School of Mines for a new athletic facility. In exchange for the donation, the school allows donors to have whatever they like inscribed on a nameplate that will go in the football locker room.
Everything from “Give ‘Em Hell” to “OK Gentlemen, it’s time to gird your loins” has been approved by the university, which receives public funding. But when Lucas submitted two Bible verses for his nameplate, he says the school refused, saying the words “Lord,” “God,” or “Jesus” cannot be on the nameplates. On top of that, he said Bible verses that include those words are also banned.
Lucas wanted Colossians 3:23 and Micah 5:9 on his donor plate, just the verse citations, not the actual text of the verse.
Colossians 3:23 reads “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
Micah 5:9 reads “Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed.”
That use of the word “Lord” in one verse was too much for the school, so now Lucas has teamed up with the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom to file a federal lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hope he sues their socks off.
“Jesus Christ, man, you can’t say Jesus Christ in here”
Will they ban “allah” too?
We no longer have to wonder what the school administrators have been smoking.
Liberal “tolerance” in action. Its getting to the point that the US will be a carbon copy of Bolshevik Russia.
Barack Hussein Soetoro 0bama is missing from that list.
Get your money back, give no more donations, don’t send your children there.
I suspect they will not. Even some liberals have become concerned about our loss of freedom of speech.
Ironically, “God,” “Jesus,” and “Lord save us” are probably the first words said by miners trapped in a cave in.
“Will they ban “allah” too?”
That would be an interesting experiment.
That would be a good exercise to out their hypocrisy.
Request a Koran verse.
This is an engineering school, and if the administration has slid all the way left that they do not recognize the 1st amendment, nor an alumnus’s donation, things must be bad in academia.
They better hope a Mexican named Jesus doesn’t want to donate and use their name on a plaque.
Maybe if they ask really politely, the can substitute “The Christian Allah” for God.
Maybe would-be gunmen won’t target anyone there since “God” isn’t allowed! (/sarc)
bkmrk
What about “I am”?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.