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Sunday, August 07, 2005

Tolerance and Diversity on Campus

Here`s a good one I found in the Federalist:


In the academic land of love and tolerance, a New Jersey student-employee at William Paterson University has been reprimanded by the university president for telling a female professor that lesbian relationships are "perversion" according to his religious beliefs. Of course, the professor initiated contact, spamming students with an advertisement for a film described as a "lesbian relationship story." Prof. Arlene Holpp Scala, head of the women's-studies department, forwarded the student's reply email to the university's Office of Employment Equity and Diversity, whining, "[this] message to me sounds threatening and in violation of our university's non-discrimination policy. I don't want to feel threatened at my place of work when I send out announcements about events that address lesbian issues." (The head of the men's-studies department was unavailable for comment.) The student appealed the reprimand to the state's Attorney General's office, which declared, "[S]peech which violates a non-discrimination policy is not protected by the First Amendment." Huh? Taking this even further into the realm of the absurd, the student is a 63-year-old Muslim named Jihad Daniel! That's quite a conundrum for the Left -- "free speech" versus "diversity"!

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