Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Oxford students call for professorās removal over alleged homophobia
Students at Oxford University are demanding that a Catholic law professor be sacked for alleged homophobia.
At least 350 students have signed a petition calling for John Finnis to be removed from teaching, citing a āa long record of extremely discriminatory views against many groups of disadvantaged peopleā including the LGBT+ community.
Finnis, 78, who is emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy at University College, has rejected the studentsā claims, saying there was ānot a āphobicā sentenceā in all his writings.
His Collected Essays, published in 2011, include an assertion from a paper published in 1994 that homosexuality is ānever a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of lifeā. It is ādestructive of human character and relationshipsā, he wrote, because āit treats human sexual capacities in a way which is deeply hostile to the self-understanding of those members who are willing to commit themselves to real marriageā.
Not sure there is enough in the passage quoted. But if I was a gay student I would not feel comfortable being taught by this character, and paying for the pleasure.
Students at Oxford University are demanding that a Catholic law professor be sacked for alleged homophobia.
At least 350 students have signed a petition calling for John Finnis to be removed from teaching, citing a āa long record of extremely discriminatory views against many groups of disadvantaged peopleā including the LGBT+ community.
Finnis, 78, who is emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy at University College, has rejected the studentsā claims, saying there was ānot a āphobicā sentenceā in all his writings.
His Collected Essays, published in 2011, include an assertion from a paper published in 1994 that homosexuality is ānever a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of lifeā. It is ādestructive of human character and relationshipsā, he wrote, because āit treats human sexual capacities in a way which is deeply hostile to the self-understanding of those members who are willing to commit themselves to real marriageā.
Not sure there is enough in the passage quoted. But if I was a gay student I would not feel comfortable being taught by this character, and paying for the pleasure.