Posted on 05/03/2016 6:04:59 AM PDT by marshmallow
Police and school investigating incident as a hate crime
LOS ANGELES (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Los Angeles Jesuit university has fired an employee for telling students there are only two genders — male and female.
In April, Catholic Loyola Marymount University (LMU) allowed LGBT Student Services (LGBTSS) to hold LGBTQ+ Awareness Week, also known as Rainbow Week. Posters were put up throughout campus, but on April 14 three members of the club noted some were taken down and placed behind a garbage can. They retrieved the posters and put them back up, claiming an unnamed employee of the Alumni Relations office approached them and "replied hatefully."
The employee maintains she told the students she believes there are only two genders and that next year somebody should place posters up that explain the Catholic understanding of marriage and sex. She said the conversation was civil, and she welcomed the student to come to her office if they want to talk about it again. They all shook hands and expressed how happy they were to have the opportunity to "dialog."
The student, however, complained and both the police and the campus Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) are investigating the incident as a hate crime. The employee, an unnamed woman who has been employed at LMU for 15 years, was suspended without an inquiry by university authorities. She confronted her supervisor but was sent home pending the outcome of the BIRT and police investigation.
Her husband posted a response to the suspension maintaining witnesses to the conversation noted the exchange was civil and no unpleasantries were exchanged. He also noted that neither his wife nor were any witnesses interviewed by school authorities before his wife was fired.
The student-run LMU news service, the Los Angeles Loyolan, wrote a story portraying the account as told by........
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Jesuit school? Shocker
There are three...Masculine, Feminine and Neuter.
Jesuits remind me of the Puritans. Over the course of several centuries they have done a 180 degree turn from their original mission.
The worst enemy of Catholicism is the Jesuits.
And, one of the best friends of socialists is the Catholic Church.
Not the Catholic Church I believed in when I was young.
Nouns and adjectives have genders. Mammals are divided into two sexes.
I’m not sure why 75% of the “Catholic” universities in the United States are still allowed to call themselves Catholic. Can’t their Catholic charter be pulled? Most are secular, in many ways anti-Catholic at this point and its a disgrace to call them Catholic.
Hate crime?
No crime was committed at all. I’ve never liked the notion of a ‘hate crime’, and this is an example of why. These lunatics on the BIRT Team think ‘hate’ is a crime. It isn’t. Hate crimes are defined as an actual crime, inspired by prejudice and/or discriminatory hate. That is foolish enough, but now merely ‘hating’ somebody is considered a crime in the halls of academia.
I would bet this ‘school’ is taking federal money and doesn’t want to put a damper on the gravy train. It’s all about federal money. No doubt, Obama’s troglodytes are in on this. The degeneracy starts at the White Hut.
As democrats say, "SETTLED SCIENCE".
Once again a catholic university is just wrong.
Thank you! “Gender” is a grammatical term.
There are two sexes. “Sex” is the biological term.
Re-read the First Amendment. There is no such thing as hate speech except in the addled brains of the leftists and progressives.
You may be silly enough to believe that "zero" is a number. Ha.
Funny how the media never apply the “Catholic” part of many popular universities until something like this comes up. Never do you hear “National Basketball Champions Catholic Georgetown Hoyas” or “Catholic Notre Dame going to the Bowl Game”
Truth.
I guess they mean, transvestitism. There is no such thing as “transgender”. That’s just some goofy term created by the commie libs for people suffering from sexual disorientation.
Freedom of speech is not a grey area, you either have it or you don’t.
” There is no such thing as “transgender”. “
Sure there is. It’s a developmental birth defect.
AKA “hermaphroditism”
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