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.”
People in TN like to think of themselves as “broad-minded”. That’s why they stick with Alexander and Corker.
She’s there In the hometown of James Knox Polk to teach Tennesseeans to be “good people”. But will they learn the lesson?
Chalk it up to Nashville, the Hollyweird of Tennessee.
Nothing new here.
The Nazis used to have a lot of professors like this.
“I would *love* to be a student in that misguided fool’s class.”
Some brain factories offer a special deal for students over age 65. A few retired Freepers in class would put an end to this kind of nonsense.
You almost hit the nail. I’m a native Tennessean and I was never happy in TN. The people do not think of themselves as “broad-minded”, they know they are hillbillies and they are scared to death that the “elites” of the world will find out. So they pretend to be “oh so cultured”. They always hated the reputation that Nashville had as the mecca of country music. They despised the Grand Ole Opry and would not be caught dead there, but they secretly listened to it behind closed doors. The nutty things they are doing now are to say to the world, “see, we’re not backwoods knuckle draggers. We are tolerant and politically correct.
Funny, I was the rebel who thought nothing of what people thought. Brought home all the riff raff (Mom called them) as my friends. I tried to tell her that they needed friends too. I grew to hate the phoniness of the people in my birth state. But where I spent my teen years in Ala. the people were red necks and proud of it. I loved them.
Me, too.
You get some really high quality teachers at this level of education. Seriously, she sounds like a crazy person.
There is truth in what you say. I actually got an undergrad psychology degree. I was no good at math or chemistry or biology, so I kind of slouched over to psychology. I got the degree and said, "Now what?" I looked at the masters program and it had too much math and statistics in it...so I gave up and went after the only thing I was good at....art and graphic design. I got another degree in that subject and have done well with it.
You are right. See my previous post on this thread. I got a Psych degree back in the 80s. It is a useless collection of man's theories based on feelings, hunches, and cultural/political trends.
Educated in her own mind?
College, once a place to learnt to think, now just a communist institution of groupthink liberals.
It is a fraudulent field, a fraudulent study, a fraudulent science.
I’m just waiting on Jesus!
bfl
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