Biology professor says he was fired for teaching that sex is determined by chromosomes.
https://t.co/ai1ZmT6VU1 pic.twitter.com/14zc3HZdjJ— New York Post (@nypost) June 28, 2023
Posted on 07/01/2023 9:55:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A biology professor at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas claimed that he was fired after he taught a lesson explaining that sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes.
The professor, Johnson Varkey, claimed that he was let go from the college for “religious preaching” in his class. Over the course of 20 years, Varkey taught human anatomy and physiology to more than 1,500 students, according to the New York Post.
During a lesson on the human reproductive system on Nov. 28, 2022, Varkey made remarks about how X and Y chromosomes determine a person’s sex. Four students reportedly walked out of his class as a result of these remarks.
Biology professor says he was fired for teaching that sex is determined by chromosomes.
https://t.co/ai1ZmT6VU1 pic.twitter.com/14zc3HZdjJ— New York Post (@nypost) June 28, 2023
In January, Varkey received a Notice of Discipline and Termination of Employment and Contract letter stating that the school “received numerous complaints” about his alleged “religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter,” the institute added, noting that Varkey has “a sincerely held belief that God created humankind male and female.”
“In two decades of teaching these basic, unremarkable concepts, no other students complained,” the First Liberty Institute, a conservative law firm, said in a press release.
First Liberty Institute noted that Varkey’s firing violates the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“What St. Philip’s College did is wrong—and Dr. Varkey should get his job back. Public universities have no business firing professors for teaching actual science,” the press release explained. “It’s harmful to academic freedom. It’s also harmful to religious liberty, as the college is sending a message that people of faith are not welcome and need not apply.”
xx = female
xy = male
If you are totally without knowledge of xx and xy and by definition ignorant, just look below the navel. If there is no penis it is a girl. If there is a penis it is a boy.
Did they burn him at the stake yet?
xx = female
xy = male
If you are totally without knowledge of xx and xy and by definition ignorant, just look below the navel. If there is no penis it is a girl. If there is a penis it is a boy.
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“Did they burn him at the stake yet.”
Burning at the stake is so medieval; the modern way is to simply make a heretic an unperson.
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An obvious heretic loses job.
Not sure if science has been thus threatened since Bruno and Servetus were both burned at the stake.
So now teaching a fundamental biological fact is “religious preaching.”
Got it.
Seems to me that the four obviously ignorant students were the problem, not the professor. Maybe the four students owned the college. I never knew that the basics of human biology no longer applied & I think the college & those four students should be challenged on that proposition.
That would be racist, sexist, bigoted, or something wouldn't it?
So, then...it seems texans CAN’T take care of their own.
Alrighty, then. State’s farther gone than I thought.
And, he's a white supremacist!
Another “college” that has replaced science with “political science”; political science being just one among myriad Grievance Studies programs.
The left insists that people follow the science. And when people do, they fire or otherwise cancel them.
slam dunk win
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