University Apologizes for Stomping Jesus

Townhall.com ^ | March 23, 2013 | Todd Starnes

[Kaslin]

Florida Atlantic University has issued an apology for a classroom assignment that involving students writing the name “Jesus” on a sheet of paper and then stomping on the paper. The university also said the lesson will never again be used.

“We sincerely apologize for any offense this has caused,” the university said in a prepared statement. “Florida Atlantic University respects all religions and welcomes people of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs.”

The university initially defended the Christ-bashing lesson which is included textbook titled, “Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition.”

Fox News obtained a synopsis of the lesson taught by Deandre Poole, who also happens to be vice chair of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party.

“Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of paper,” the lesson reads. “Ask the students to stand up and put the paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they can’t step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture.”

Ryan Rotela, a devout Mormon, was in the classroom and refused to participate — telling television station WPEC that the assignment was insulting and offensive.

[xzins]

The university said they were trying to teach students how it felt to experience something culturally insensitive, and then the university was offended and authoritarian when a student reacted to cultural insensitivity.

Seems to me they are hypocrites on top of everything else, who were teaching something they themselves didn’t practice...tolerance. Like liberals everywhere it’s, “Tolerance for thee, but not for me.”

We need to turn our future generations toward cyper-education and break the monopoly liberals have on the field of education.

And conservative cyber-education sources have got to stop charging fees that might make sense for students using their brick and mortar campuses with utilities, insurances, desks, etc.

If they price it right, the students will come. And right-priced is a reduction for those not utilizing the university’s full resources.

They can revolutionize the training of the kids of conservatives (and others) if they’ll undersell the brick and mortar competition.

[Elsie]

That's not what this university did, of course.

But it's a START - to see what can be gotten away with...

[Northern Yankee]

Yes ma'am... I posted a similar thought yesterday when the story broke on FR.

What worries me even more is that I used to think that the rise of tyranny, like Nazism, could never happen in this country. Now I am not so sure...

The university should have suspended the professor!

[mylife]

Meanwhile, we have a FReeper bashing Mormons at this very moment.
Obsessed with it.

I swear to God we are lost at times in not being able to see the forest from the trees.

[Elsie]

. I hope they apologized and ditched the suspension.

...and are lining up some really GOOD lawyers!!!

[Gargantua]

"...I want to see that hideous person."

Five bucks says she's got at least one brother in jail, and has no idea who her Daddy is. LMAO!!!

;-\

[Elsie]

Why were college students treated as idiots with this insulting test?

It mattereth not; for on the OTHER end of the country...

 

 

Professor Robert Millet        teaching at the Mission Prep Club in 2004  http://newsnet.byu.edu/video/18773/  <-- Complete and uneditted

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Timeline...    Subject...

 

0:59           "Anti-Mormons..."

1:16           "ATTACK the faith you have..."

2:02           "We really aren't obligated to answer everyone's questions..."

3:57           "You already know MORE about God and Christ and the plan of salvation than any who would ATTACK you."

[liberalh8ter]

Exactly right.

[Elsie]

AMEN!

[Elsie]

Also reminiscent of the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ from 1984.

I thought it was 3?

[Elsie]

Not so....

[mylife]

The wider issue is that when the student complained and took it to higher authority, they sided with the jerk *** professor and suspended the student.

They literally ganged up on the kid in the name of “thinking our way”

[albie]

I would have written Deandre Poole on the paper and blown my nose with it.

[Elsie]

Someone tell Colofornian.

Why?

I'm here now!

[jsanders2001]

> They’re lucky the instructor didn’t have them write “Muhammad” on a piece of paper and stomp on it.
They would have had a jihad on their campus within hours.

The campus would have been 911’d

I hope the university’s attendance drops so low they are forced to close their doors. I’m tired of all this liberal bs that’s supposed to be PC but is completely intolerant and hostile to the very sense of truth, common sense, and integrity.

[Gargantua]

What a cheerful looking guy! You can tell he wakes up every day glad to just be himself, huh? And there's no way he blames us for his personal situation.

I'm ususally pretty non-violent, but a face like that was made for smushing with a cream-pie. LOL!

8^)

[dforest]

Apology is not accepted unless they stop this vile progressive foulness. Which they will not.

They only offer a tepid kinda apology when they get caught.

[mylife]

You have multiple screen names?

[driftdiver]

Not the communist way or kids today aren’t taught to be compliant. Either way you are incorrect.

[Elsie]

Some students stomped; others, including Rotela, didn’t.

 

 

 

http://www.mediaite.com/online/college-student-reportedly-suspended-after-refusing-to-step-on-jesus%E2%80%99/

Some students stomped; others, including Rotela, didn’t.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/college-student-reportedly-suspended-after-refusing-to-step-on-jesus%E2%80%99/