Posted on 06/19/2013 6:21:11 AM PDT by servo1969
A professor at a community college in Tennessee allegedly ordered students in her general psychology class to wear “Rainbow Coalition” ribbons for an entire day to advertise support for the advancement of gay and lesbian political causes.
The professor, Linda Brunton, informed her students at Columbia State Community College that opponents of gay marriage are “uneducated bigots” who “attack homosexuals with hate,” reports Fox News Radio.
Travis Barham, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization, has sent a letter to Columbia State’s president on behalf of several students in Brunton’s class.
The letter seeks an apology to those students because, Barham claims, Brunton violated their First Amendment rights by forcing them to promote a specific political agenda. The letter also calls for the two-year community college to punish Brunton.
Alliance Defending Freedom claims that Brunton instructed students to write a paper describing how they suffered discrimination because they support gay rights. The professor allegedly told students who objected because of their religious convictions that their personal opinions didn’t matter.
“When students objected to how she was pushing her personal views on the class, she explained that it is her job ‘to educate the ignorant and uneducated elements of society,’” Barham told Fox News.
The professor reportedly prohibited any discussion of the morality of homosexuality, rejecting such lines of reasoning as “throwing Bible verses.”
“Dr. Brunton essentially turned her general psychology class into a semester-long clinic on the demands of the homosexual movement,” Barham added.
A representative from Columbia State heard about the kerfuffle from Fox News and promised to find out more. Brunton has not yet commented.
Brunton holds two degrees from Eastern Kentucky University and a doctor of education from Tennessee State University. She is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Educators Network.
The directional university alumna lists AIDS awareness and education as well as diversity issues among her professional interests.
Brunton’s other interests include “vacationing in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico!” and “swimming with wild dolphins!” (The exclamation points are Brunton’s, not The Daily Caller’s!)
The alleged incident is reasonably similar to an incident involving a math professor at Brevard Community College in Florida who forced her students to sign pledges that they would vote for President Barack Obama last November. The school’s president eventually recommended that the professor, Sharon Sweet, be sacked.
Just another one of those “educated” but not “smart” indoctrinators that the education establishment seems to crank out in droves...
Gays hate themselves and are disgusted by what they are. The only way they can get some sort of relief in their tortured lives is to have others constantly affirm their twisted lifestyle is actually acceptable.
This why they are so in your face over promoting their deviancy, almost daring anyone to not publically champion their behavior
Female
Lesbian (Yeah I am pretty sure looking at the picture)
Mentally challenged.
is she a lesbo?
#24
If not, she sure has missed her calling.
She is a state employee. The governor should fire her.
Whenever a liberal gains any power or authority they immediately begin to abuse it and missuse it to force their agenda on others.
We see it in action every day from liberals at all levels - from President Obama, IRS bureaucrats, Community College professors and even grade school teachers.
Not me
I'm an Educated Bigot!
I used to be somewhat tolerant...
But I've been so forced to accept all that I am now a Bigot.
Back at the last Ice Age when I was in college (1966, and it was a four-year institution), I did not know the political philosophy of any professor with one exception and his was well-disguised. The college had strict rules on this, as it should be that way. They taught the course as outlined.
Since it was Alabama and a different era one could assume that they were all conservatives with a few “moderates” mixed in.
She is a member of the APA. To cause her great grief file an “ethics complaint” against her with that organization. She will be uncomfortable for some time.
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