Posted on 02/16/2009 9:17:11 AM PST by GonzoII
After being called a "fascist" by his professor, a Christian California student has filed suit against his college for violations of his free-speech rights.
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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
SOCK IT TO EM.
While we still can!
I pray he gets a patriotic non-OLIGARCHIC judge!/jury
These kind of colleges need to be boycotted as well.
Ping.
A previous article on this situation
had a bit about the prof writing on the student’s paper:
“Ask God what your grade is”.
Well, really, what else really matters?
And, no, the student isn’t the fascist. The prof is.
I can’t believe the article named the teacher.
Cool.
Professors are supposed to be so intelligent, nuanced and sophisticated, but all they can ever come up with, in arguing with anyone even a whisker to the right of their diseased perspective is, “fascist” or the wholly inaccurate “Nazi”.
Why pay money to attend college?
Inside the skin of every liberal there is a seething commissar just waiting to be released...
> “Ask God what your grade is”.
I guess the college now gets to “ask God what the damages are.”
Tell him, “God said it was an ‘A’!”
Maybe the the guy is an old queen who was dumped by Barney Frank
Matthew 5:11-12
According to an ADF press release, when no one got up to leave, the instructor simply dismissed the class, effectively ending Lopez's speech -- which violated the student's free-speech rights, adds the attorney, especially since other students made speeches on other subjects. Religious speech, notes French, apparently was excluded from the open-ended speech assignment.
"You just cannot shut down student speech like that," states French, who explains that Lopez was well within the confines of his professor's assignment, and that the professor's actions not only constitute viewpoint discrimination but also comprise "retaliation" because he disagreed with Lopez's religious beliefs.
According to the ADF attorney, the professor was not yet finished. "When [Lopez later] complained about what was an obvious act of censorship, he was threatened with expulsion by that same professor," he says.
The speech professor is identified as John Matteson of Los Angeles Community College. ADF reports that after Proposition 8 (the marriage-related constitutional amendment) was approved on November 4, Matteson told his entire class: "If you voted yes on Proposition 8, you are a fascist b_____d."
Ultimately Matteson refused to grade Lopez's November 24 speech, and wrote on the evaluation: "Ask God what your grade is."
<>Wow ! Sounds like he really has a case. The professor should be fired.
God says he gets an "A".
I love how the professor said if anyone was offended they could leave the class. No one got up!
“Why pay money to attend college?”
Colleges like Hillsdale, Grove City, Ava Maria, etc., are still worth attending but the pickings are indeed slim these days.
Matthew 5:11-12
I heard a sermon preached yesterday on that very scripture. For all of my life until now, religious persecution in this country seemed so remote as to be impossible — that was something that happened in the Soviet Union. With the election of a Communist for president confirming the general deteriorating climate in this country, persecution now seems eminent, and I think the churches are beginning to prepare us for that possibility.
Well said.
“Professors are supposed to be so intelligent, nuanced and sophisticated”
Once scum wriggle their way into the top of an organization, only scum are tolerated.
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