Posted on 02/15/2018 5:09:55 AM PST by Petrosius
MONTREAL, Canada, February 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A Christian philosophy professor and award-winning lecturer at a post-secondary institution has been suspended for remarks he made on social media about homosexuality.
Jean Laberge, a philosophy teacher at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal since 1994, has been placed on leave pending sanctions by college administration.
Laberge posted a note on Facebook on January 17 where he said that he had “aversion” and “distaste” for homosexuals, reported Radio-Canada. He spoke of “fear” and his lack of comprehension for homosexuality while also saying he “respected” the condition. This note no longer appears on Laberge’s Facebook page.
The teacher was suspended on January 30 for what the cégep’s spokeswoman Guylaine Fortin is now calling “an extended period.”
A cégep, unique to the educational system of the Canadian province of Quebec, is a post-secondary, pre-university college. Typically its teenage students attend for three years if they do not plan on going on to university and two years if they do. The Cégep du Vieux-Montréal is locally known as a predominantly left-wing institution.
Contacted by Radio-Canada at his home last week, Jean Laberge said that he didn’t understand why he is being criticized for his writing published outside his work.
"It is dictatorship, it is Big Brother, it does not make sense," he told them over the phone.
The lecturer said that the college "is making a serious mistake" by suspending him and is applying "considerable prejudice" against him, denying him of his freedom of speech for comments he did not make in class. He told Radio-Canada that he had never shared his views on homosexuality with his students at the Cégep: “I have always observed a strict duty of silence,” he stated.
However, he was quite clear with Radio-Canada about his feelings and beliefs.
"I have always been uncomfortable with homosexuality,” he said. “But I am not declaring war on homosexuals."
Laberge told the state-run media that homosexuality works against human flourishing.
"I have reason to think that homosexuality is a limited vision that does not lead to human fulfillment," he said. “I have the right not to favor homosexuality, and I invite people not to choose that path.”
Laberge said he spoke as a Christian believer, and was not trying to convince anyone: “I’m just trying to make people think.”
The philosopher appealed to his colleagues in the school’s Department of Philosophy to support his freedom of speech against the Cégep administration.
"The motto of the 'open-minded' college is nothing but dust, false representation," he wrote to them in an email.
Support, however, was not forthcoming. According to Radio-Canada, Laberge’s colleagues and students have been disturbed by his extracurricular writing for some time.
In 2013 Laberge won an award from Quebec’s Ministry of Higher Education for his textbook, Apprendre à Philosopher (Learning to Philosophize) On a post on a philosophy blog, Laberge revealed that he rediscovered his Catholic faith while pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Montreal.
“As Brian Leftow wrote, ‘I am a philosopher because I am a Christian’,” he wrote. “In our western rationalist culture, legatee of the Enlightenment, fundamentally anti-religious, it is not easy to be a Christian and a philosopher at the same time.”
All this hyper-political correctness and diversity sh** going to come back to bite mofos hard. I love karma and its coming around.....
We’ve transition from:
“Stay out of our bedroom.”
to:
“You find us distasteful? You should lose your job.”
Social media claims another one.
No better than the soviet union. Dissenters get trashed and fired here. You are forced to mouth the party line if you want to get paid.
Our society is not just having a War on Christmas, here is an example of the bigger War on Christianity! We must continue to fight back again these horrible people who want to silence Christians when they attack a Christian’s livelihood.
JoMa
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And I remember when they told us that they just wanted to be left alone.
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I find it more incredulous that the Right *never* seems to learn (willful ignorance? silence of consent?). Nor do they seem to have the capability to utilize History to show the Leftists’ never-ending push to their goals and bolster their own positions (as you’ve pointed out).
He should simply link to Canada Health statistics showing homosexual men have life spans 21 years shorter than average Canadians.
Acceptance of Homosexuality is the mark of the beast. If you don’t take it, you can’t buy or sell....
Think about it.
P.C. is the language of slaves.....
The majority of society still considers homosexuality wrong despite what the news media is pushing. I am beginning to question the percentage of newspeople who are homosexual, given what they put out. Look how much they are producing on Adam Rippon in the news!
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