Posted on 03/25/2013 5:11:39 AM PDT by massmike
A Florida Atlantic University student who filed a complaint against his professor after he was ordered to stomp on the name of Jesus has been brought up on academic charges by the school and may no longer attend class.
The Notice of Charges against Ryan Rotela is contrary to a statement the university released late Friday night saying no one had been disciplined as a result of the classroom activity.
We can confirm that no student has been expelled, suspended or disciplined by the university as a result of any activity that took place during this class, the university said in a prepared statement.
However, according to a letter written by Associate Dean Rozalia Williams, Rotela is facing a litany of charges including an alleged violation of the student code of conduct, acts of verbal, written or physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion or other conduct which threaten the health, safety or welfare of any person.
In the interim, you may not attend class or contact any of the students involved in this matter verbally or electronically or by any other means, Williams wrote to Rotela. Please be advised that a Student Affairs hold may be placed on your records until final disposition of the complaint.
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation at the Liberty Institute, told Fox News the universitys behavior is outlandish and called their press release inaccurate. We believe the university punished him in retaliation for him exposing the class assignment to the public, Sasser said. Sadly, it is a testimony to the indoctrination that some of the public schools and universities are engaging in to demonize anything that was valuable in the culture.
The Liberty Institute wants Rotela reinstated with full credit for the course along with an apology.
(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...
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 cant step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture.
The sadder but truer lesson for adults is after stomping on the paper with the name of a probable icon is:
Why in the world would you follow that instruction blindly?
Does this have any meaning to why tragedies are committed by blindly following idiots in power?
Would teaching adults the meaning of refusal to follow orders be an important concept in a free society?
DK
Where do these people come from? Zimbabwe, Mexico, Columbia?
My crystal ball tells me that there will be lawyers flocking to the side of this young man.
Stomp on Martin Luther King.
Take this one to the Supreme Court. Our Leftist academic institutions need to be punished for employing professors with such outrageous bigotry toward Christians.
And really, are Christian parents going to keep sending their money and their children to Florida Atlantic, where its employees are so hostile to Jesus? No, true Christians won’t.
Lawyer up and sue them.
...or a rainbow flag!
The professor would be standing in the unemployment line as we speak...
We need ANOTHER American Revolution - REAL bad and REAL soon!
“Rozalia Williams” and her brainchild. Guess every student matters except Christians.
http://www.studentlifematters.com/
Those are pretty serious charges. I have to wonder what exactly he did or said to warrant a charge like this. Could just be that the university isn't in sync, the department handling the situation their way and the university admin handling it their way. Either way, it doesn't speak well for the university.
He should hire an attorney and file suit against the University. Then his attorney can "contact any of the students involved in this matter verbally or electronically or by any other means.
Just more hapless souls trying to disprove God in their life.,
Kinduh like trying to dismiss your Mom and Dad.
She’s not black but, rather, a different shade of....
The fascists are in control. When the left is in power they show who they really are - totalitarian, brutal, fascist dictators. Under their rule, there is no freedom of thought. Dissent is punished severely.
This is so wrong on so many levels it is hard to describe.
THis School is the poster boy for anti christian Bigotry.
The student should be reinstated immediately.if not, the school should lose all Govt. Monies and all fed. loan monies.
The “Professor” should be fired sumarily, with no Benes no retirement.
The university, and more to the point, the professor and the director that are punishing him,
should be made to pay for his education at an institution of his choice anywhere in the USA.
And for those who like accurate historic fiction, try "Silence" by Shusaku Endo. It's about the suppression of the Catholic missionaries and Christian-believing Japanese in the 17th century.
This is exactly what the Tokugawa Shogunate did: required people to stomp in figures of Jesus Chris and the Blessed Virgin Mary. If they refused, they were tortured to death. Happened to thousands.
I read it about 30 years ago and still call it to mind from time to time: excellently written litarature, not egregiously graphic or lurid at all, but in the heart, disturbing.
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