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(Winter Haven, Florida) Professor fails student for refusing to condemn her Christian faith
Campus Reform ^ | May 5, 2015 | Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Posted on 05/05/2015 12:45:24 PM PDT by Zakeet

A professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student after she refused to concede that Jesus is a “myth” or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college.

According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, a non-profit public interest law firm, Humanities Professor Lance "Lj" Russum gave a student a “zero” on four separate papers because the 16-year-old did not “conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.” The law firm has called for a full, private investigation of the professor and the course curriculum.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: academicbias; christianity; education; florida; liberalagenda; persecution; polkstatecollege
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So now it really is beginning. When there are real consequences for not denying your Lord and Savior, what’s next? Burning at the stake?

Or something. Go watch Ann Barnhardt's videos about the Vendee Genocide during the time of the French Revolution.

21 posted on 05/05/2015 1:35:38 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: lastchance

After doing a bit of searching——he is, I think, from the Oakland area. W. Lance Russum— probably daddy-—is an Alameda lawyer. This clown is a hardcore radical simp of the feminist, marxist, racist, sexist, super leftist persuasion and I am willing to bet some cash that he is queer as a Hawaii birth certificate.


22 posted on 05/05/2015 1:36:40 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Zakeet

It would be interesting to see what the Professor would profess if he had some skin in the game:

Suppose a student walked into his office and pointed a gun at his head and said, “If I believe in God, I won’t shoot you for fear of eternal damnation. However, if you convince me there isn’t a God, then I will shoot you without fear of eternal consequences, as revenge for your destroying my faith. Now then, Mr. Professor, is there a God, or isn’t there?”


23 posted on 05/05/2015 1:44:58 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: ExSoldier

It might be an urban legend but I still love the mind picture I get whenever I read it.


24 posted on 05/05/2015 1:58:59 PM PDT by SwatTeam (And my posting name has nothing to do with law enforcement.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Yep then the professor would know what it like to placed between a rock and a hard place. BANG!


25 posted on 05/05/2015 2:00:51 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Zakeet

The teacher is an idiot.

The 16 year old student deserved a poor grade. I read her papers. As a former historian myself, I can only say that she has no understanding of history - I mean the student - and is little more than an anti-Catholic bigot.

https://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/2015/050415_-_LJ_Russum_-_Evidence_of_Discrimination.pdf


26 posted on 05/05/2015 2:00:56 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: jwalsh07
I had a Philosophy Professor in college who hated veterans.

Ditto for me when I attended Drexel Institute on the GI bill in the early sixties. My industry coordinator told me veterans should not be welcome at the school...made things difficult for me ...downgraded my industry reports...gave me crappy industry assignments.....threatened to get me expelled if I didn't quit pointing at him during consults. (Charlie Bintzer)

27 posted on 05/05/2015 2:01:50 PM PDT by Banjoguy (Start boycotting the airline industry..NOW! Drive everywhere you can.)
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To: Zakeet
Better to take the zero, than lose your soul.

Good on the kid.

28 posted on 05/05/2015 2:02:36 PM PDT by mware
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To: manc

God is not Dead.


29 posted on 05/05/2015 2:03:16 PM PDT by mware
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To: Rockpile

Celtic studies and Feminist theory.
Methinks the good professor has some unresolved issues.
Just a guess.


30 posted on 05/05/2015 2:05:28 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

A Christian student does not belong in such a class.
Maybe not even in a university that has such a class and employs such a professor.


31 posted on 05/05/2015 2:07:44 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man[a]
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;


32 posted on 05/05/2015 2:08:24 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Very good movie.

I teach middle / high school-age Sunday School students. We’ve been discussing life away from home and church (walking the tightrope without a net) for several weeks.

Kids gotta invite God to go with them wherever they go.


33 posted on 05/05/2015 2:09:18 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler
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To: Mase

In some areas you can do 1/2 day school 1/2 day college if you are 16 or over.


34 posted on 05/05/2015 2:10:30 PM PDT by conservativesister
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To: Mase

I don’t know her, but you have to respect a kid that will stand up to a jerk like this ‘professor’.


35 posted on 05/05/2015 2:16:11 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: Zakeet

Sick little totalitarians.


36 posted on 05/05/2015 2:21:39 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Zakeet
And the students pay money for this?

She should sue the school for failure to deliver the promised services that were paid for, namely a fair grade for a fair effort.

-PJ

37 posted on 05/05/2015 2:30:58 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: ealgeone
You're right.

Tenure had a place in a different American. Today the types of people teaching college don't deserve tenure anymore than a fry cook at McDonalds 'deserves' tenure...

38 posted on 05/05/2015 2:31:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (The thugs loot stores. The community leaders loot cities. - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Zakeet

Yet another in a long line of so-called professors who should be scrubbing outhouse stalls.


39 posted on 05/05/2015 2:32:59 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: jwalsh07

I guess I lucked out. Philosophy was my major and 2 of my professors were WWII vets.


40 posted on 05/05/2015 2:34:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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