I thought this girl had actually balked at treating someone, but I had gotten her confused wtih the other student who was being discriminated against.
In the Augusta case, a class member "turned her in" for stating her beliefs outside of class. What a bunch of hogwash.
Here's another one:
"A popular professor has been barred from teaching by an American university because he explained Roman Catholic beliefs on homosexuality to students studying Roman Catholicism.
After the lecture to his “Introduction to Catholicism” class at the University of Illinois, Professor Kenneth Howell emailed his students and encouraged each of them to approach issues about homosexuality “as a thinking adult”.
His email prompted a complaint from a friend of an anonymous student, who denounced the email as hate speech and claimed to be “offended”.
An anonymous student's FRIEND. That's interesting.
And this is in a class that teaches about Roman Catholicism. So apparently we aren't to share our beliefs at all in class anymore. Schools are trying to bar Christians from the schools and prevent them from obtaining degrees. Lovely.
Meanwhile, terrorist sympathizers get free rein.
"Recent studies have demonstrated that Christian professors are consistently marginalised and passed over for promotion.
Yet decades of US Supreme Court precedent has settled that “The classroom is peculiarly the ‘market-place of ideas’”, and that universities “may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable”.
US University bars prof for teaching RC beliefs | News | The Christian Institute
"Howell, who has taught on the Champaign-Urbana campus since 2001, was barred last month after explaining during class why the church believes that homosexual behavior violates natural moral law. He elaborated later in an e-mail to students, which lawyers say circulated around campus and prompted complaints.
"All I ask as your teacher is that you approach these questions as a thinking adult," Howell wrote. "That implies questioning what you have heard around you. Unless you have done extensive research into homosexuality and are cognizant of the history of moral thought, you are not ready to make judgments about moral truth in this matter. All I encourage is to make informed decisions."
"Lorence said Howell's dismissal is one of an increasing number of cases where conservative professors have been penalized for ideological reasons.
"It's far too frequent that universities seem to be implying an ideological litmus test for their faculty members," Lorence said. "Rather than it be a true marketplace of ideas where diverse ideas are vigorously debated, there seems to be ... an orthodoxy that's imposed that one must espouse a certain view on marriage or they can't teach."
Howell's removal has inspired a Facebook page supporting him that has more than 2,600 fans, including backing from the president of the campus secularist group Atheists, Agnostics & Freethinkers."
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/u-of-i-to-review-professors-removal-over-comments.html
