Posted on 04/28/2017 6:34:26 AM PDT by C19fan
A Northern Arizona University student was recently asked to stop reading his Bible prior to the start of one of his classes, according to audio obtained by Campus Reform.
In a recording of the February incident, provided to Campus Reform by Kevin Cavanaugh for Congress, Mark Holden explains the situation to History Department Chair Derek Heng, who had been called in by the instructor, Dr. Heather Martel, after Holden had refused her request that he put his Bible away.
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The Bible is a huge threat to those who hate God. If he were reading the Koran, well that’s just fine.
>>The Bible is a huge threat to those who hate God. If he were reading the Koran, well that’s just fine.<<
Too bad the student didn’t do exactly that.
He should try it with a Koran and see if he is instructed to put it away.
He seems like he's trying to develop a monolog to relay to a higher up because the student (apparently) has connected with him to report the incident and pursue any reaction BECAUSE of it.
Heng is no different than the teacher.
When will these left-wing totalitarian professors be told that they work for the students and not the other way around? I had a similar situation years ago when I was in college, and a prof laid into me, saying I was late to class (I wasn’t) and that I was disturbing those who wanted to learn. (I wasn’t). I reminded him that he was wasting MY time and money, because he worked for me and every other student in the room, because we paid his salary. Looking back, I was probably lucky to escape with a D.
It’s ok. They can still read “How To Find Other Gay Students” before class.
Photo! Where’s the photo of Professor Martel? I want a look at the apparent heathen.
Yep
...If he were reading the Koran, well that’s just fine...
They wouldn’t dare do that. It would be Islamophobic.
WARNING - viewing this image maybe disturbing. Viewer discretion is necessary.
http://nau.edu/cal/history/faculty-staff/martel/
You know darn well by the way the conversation ended, that the head of the department isn’t going to do a blasted thing about the instructor but will come down on the student and tell him not to take his Bible into the classroom. No different from lots of bosses who will make employees think that their gripes actually have merit only to DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to solve the problem brought to their attention.
The department head was a foreigner - wonder what nationality the instructor is...
Okay, you asked for it. You were warned, so don’t yell at me after you look at IT.
http://nau.edu/CAL/History/Faculty-Staff/Martel/
Assistant Professor
Associate Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies
(PhD UC-Irvine)
US/Gender History
It is easy to see why the Holy Bible would be a threat to this thing.
Hey there - Should have heeded your warning. No surprise there.
I think she should pair up with the “thing” at Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa, CA who caused an uproar in the classroom over Trump’s election... They have a lot in common. I think she may be gone from the last report I saw - could be wrong.
This
The Bible must not be read nor present in any place on campus. Only the Koran may be read and space must be provided for prayer rugs in every class.
Signed: university administration
Research and teaching interests
My research and writing falls under the working book title, Deadly Virtue: Protestant Identity, Sexual Violence and Race in First Encounters with Indigenous Americans. My thesis is that though many of the individual Europeans who met indigenous Americans found them to be sympathetic, the process of defining a new Protestant identity required resistance to indigenous American people and cultures that resulted in sexual violence and developed into modern racism. I contextualize these encounters within the history of Christianity, the body, and early modern identity politics of gender, race, and sexuality.
Currently I am writing an essay titled “The Gender Amazon: Indigenous Female Masculinity in Early Modern European Representations of Contact,” which has been accepted for presentation at the Newberry Library Seminar on Women and Gender. This essay argues that English and French men exploring the Americas for the first time carried expectations of encountering Amazons: physically powerful, martial women with a great deal of sexual and political agency who lived in matriarchal societies. As a result, when they encountered real indigenous American women within cultures that provided them with sexual, spiritual, and political agency, these travelers were able to partially recognize alternatives to the western gender system.
This research and my academic training draw upon a broad array of early modern historiography, theoretical approaches, and historical methodologies that prepare me to teach early modern Atlantic World History, comparative colonialisms, cross-cultural encounters, the history of science, the history of women, gender, race, class, masculinity, and sexuality, as well as postcolonial, queer, gender, and critical race theory.
HIS 565: Readings in Gender, Race, and Class
W: 4-6:30 pm
LA 203
Dr. Heather Martel
Gender and sexuality are historically and culturally specific descriptions of relations of power in the West that are dependent on metaphors of embodiment, which intersect with other arrangements of power, in class, race, age, faith, monarchy, and colonialism. This course will explore methods and models for theorizing and historicizing gender and sexuality in the early modern Atlantic world. While focusing on this geographic time and space, the course will also provide students with strategies useful in their research in other areas. Readings will include: Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigary, Elizabeth Grosz, Kathryn Schwarz, Joan Scott, Judith Butler, Anne Fausto Sterling, Andrea Smith, Oyeronke Oyewumi, Michel Foucault, David Halperin, and Thomas Lauquer.
After viewing this I see what’s happening. This professor is threatened by his conscience, period. The Holy Spirit is working and the student knows this! No evangelization words are exchanged but the student is trying to lead this professor out of the wilderness of his sins. If he’s not trying, the effect is there.
Beautiful! “Preach the gospel, use words if necessary” not sure who said this but I like it.
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