Posted on 06/18/2013 3:52:09 PM PDT by fwdude
A Tennessee community college professor ordered her students to wear ribbons in support of gay rights and said those who supported the traditional definition of marriage are just “uneducated bigots” who “attack homosexuals with hate,” according to a legal firm representing several of the students in the class.
Students in a general psychology class at Columbia State Community College were directed by their professor to wear “Rainbow Coalition” ribbons for an entire day and express their support for the homosexual community, said Travis Barham, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Barham is calling for the college to punish Dr. Linda Brunton and order her to apologize to the students whose constitutional rights he believes were violated, according to a letter he sent to the community college president.
“Dr. Brunton essentially turned her General Psychology class into a semester-long clinic on the demands of the homosexual movement,” Barham said.
A Columbia State spokesperson told Fox News she was not aware of the concerns but vowed to look into the matter. Brunton did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
According to her faculty page, Brunton is a member of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Educators Network and lists diversity issues among her professional interests.
Alliance Defending Freedom said the professor told students to write a paper about how they were allegedly “discriminated against” because of their support for homosexual conduct.
Several students objected to the assignment because their religious convictions prohibit them from supporting conduct their faith teaches them is immoral and unnatural.
Barham said the professor made it clear they had to follow the rules of the assignment to receive credit and allegedly told the students their own beliefs and viewpoints were irrelevant – even when they wrote their papers.
The students were also barred from defending or explaining any other views regarding homosexual conduct, dismissing such arguments as “throwing Bible verses” at her,” the attorney said.
“When students objected to how she was pushing her personal views on the class, she explained that it is her job ‘to educate the ignorant and uneducated elements of society,’ that oppose this movement’s demands and to correct their ‘hateful and close-minded’ views” Barham said.
Barham said the assignment violated the constitutional rights of students by forcing them to advance a particular political agenda.
“The Constitution does not allow any government official to force another person to adopt or advocate a particular moral or political view. But this professor did just that with this assignment and thus clearly violated freedoms protected by the First Amendment.”
At the risk of offending some FRiends here in the psych industry, I’ll say that psychology majors are almost always those who weren’t smart enough to cut it in the real sciences or medicine. Psychology is the slacker’s major. It’s a “make it up as you go along” field of “study.”
CSCC is a small community college in southern middle Tennessee. I would have told her to pound sand.
No, munch carpet.
I don’t want her Fired. I want the whole establishment in ruins!
Had the same crap happen to me when Clifton Snider was my Literary Criticism professor.
Everything way gay literature, culminating in “Death in Venice,” where an old professor falls in love with a 15 year old boy. How telling.
That might be more doable.
Another thought control commissar.
As Leftist as the Monty Python bunch were, they had a good early handle on political correctness.
It is a psychology class to start with. Psychology is more than a pseudo science. It is a fraudulent science.It is far and away the most fad-ridden of the social “sciences.”
There is also the People’s Front Of Judea bit from Life of Brian where the man wants them to support his issue of the right to have a baby.
California taxpayers now have to support fertility treatments (rented wombs, etc.) for same sex couples that want to create a child.
Not guilty the defendant was obviously framed. Just wear that rainbow ribbon and stfu!
Sue the f*ck out of her. Take her for EVERYTHING she has. I am sick to death of these degenerates in colleges and schools. DESTROY THIS WOMAN IN COURT.
Apparently, this is her version of "diversity"!
We had to read that in high school. I couldn't figure out what it was about and to my memory the gay aspects was never discussed.
Agree. See my post #38.
There are almost as many psychological "theories" as there are psychologists. It's a customizable "science."
Scaled for population growth, it’s now closer to 40 million.
I assume these places receive vast state funding. Can the state government get involved to REMOVE these nutjobs?
I just wonder how many other instances there are of this in which the students keep quiet and do as they are told.
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