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Duquesne U. student punished for remarks about gays
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Thursday, October 27, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 10/27/2005 7:32:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A Duquesne University sophomore said he will risk being expelled for expressing his view that homosexuality is "subhuman" rather than write a 10-page essay the university has called for.

Ryan Miner, 19, of Hagerstown, Md., was sanctioned by the university for posting his view on an online forum not related to the university.

He opposed an effort by other students to form a Gay-Straight Alliance group, an issue still being debated by the Catholic university.

"I believe as a student that my First Amendment rights in the Constitution were subverted and attacked," said Miner, who is Catholic.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: catholicschools; duquesneu; firstamendment; gaystapo; hero; homosexualagenda; homosexualsgenda; leftismoncampus; martyr; pittsburgh; prophet; thoughtcrime; thoughtpolice
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1 posted on 10/27/2005 7:32:36 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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2 posted on 10/27/2005 7:33:52 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (If life gives you lemons, blame it on Bush.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Duquesne, no bastion of conservatism there.


3 posted on 10/27/2005 7:34:11 AM PDT by PAMadMax (Islam is the enemy of all mankind...AlJazeera is its PR Firm)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He'd be called 'astute' if he changed Gay to Bush.


4 posted on 10/27/2005 7:34:56 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Semper Paratus

Or 'Christian'.


5 posted on 10/27/2005 7:36:10 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: PAMadMax

Wow.

Girls humiliate guys who are unattractive or are viewed as geeks.

Guys humiliate girls who are not attractive, are fat or ackward.

Guys with hair insult bald people.

The list goes on and on.

But the only thing we won't tolerate is picking on gays.

Why are gays treated better than the stupid, unattractive, bald, fat, ackward, unathletic, etc?


6 posted on 10/27/2005 7:37:21 AM PDT by whitedog57 (Holland)
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To: Bigh4u2

Actually, 'Christianity'.

Just in keeping with the sentence 'structure'.


7 posted on 10/27/2005 7:37:29 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He should obviously be sent to a re-education camp to be put on the path of "liberal" righteousness. /SAR.


8 posted on 10/27/2005 7:37:53 AM PDT by garyhope
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To: whitedog57

"Why are gays treated better than the stupid, unattractive, bald, fat, ackward, unathletic, etc?"

Makes you envious. Don't it?

:0)

Just kidding!


9 posted on 10/27/2005 7:38:35 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Well, it is a private university and does have the right to determine what is and is not acceptable behavior for its students, and who its students are. Of course, there are issues of contract law, whether or not this sort of thing was clearly made punishable in the express and implied contracts between the student and the university: having paid his fees, the student has performed. Has he breached the agreement? Would the university be in breach if it expelled him? It would be fun to take that case (if someone were paying my usual exhorbinant hourly rates).

This should be disquiety to Catholics who hoped the new Pope might do something about the homosexuals in the priesthood. Interestingly, even 35 years ago in a Catholic university setting, there were attempts to discipline students for being anti-homosexual after having passes made at them.

Why can't the Church simply live by the doctrine it preaches?

10 posted on 10/27/2005 7:39:33 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Diversity mantra pushes forward - message to all those who think this doesnt affect you - Businesses are now pushing the diversity mantra and this basically means if you are white (and esp male) and Christian you are going to be punished for your values. For those that dont think boycotting companies like this is a reason for change then you obviously support limited speech and our rights taken away from us.

DIVERSITY is the new evil.


11 posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:24 AM PDT by sasafras ("Licentiousness destroyes order, and when chaos ensues, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.)
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To: xsmommy

Duq is so friggin' gay.


12 posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:26 AM PDT by martin_fierro (My other car is a Tagline.)
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To: Bigh4u2

I was referring to my mother-in-law!


13 posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:40 AM PDT by whitedog57 (Holland)
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To: Bigh4u2

Why does a university have any say over what a student does on an online discussion forum not hosted by the school?

What happens to posters on FR if they're posting on the campi of Stanford, SUNY, Harvard, Yale or Brown and the PC police at their school discovers screen names are actually a student in their midst?

I fail to see how the University has any jurisdiction here.


14 posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:45 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He ought to submit a ten page essay from a lawyer on why viewpoint discrimination is illegal.


15 posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:45 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: martin_fierro

isn't that the dang truth!


16 posted on 10/27/2005 7:42:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CatoRenasci

Jesuits


17 posted on 10/27/2005 7:42:43 AM PDT by FFIGHTER (Character Matters!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Freedom of speech is under attack in our country and too
many institutions are buckling under to intimidation from
the brownshirted "gay activists." Of course a university is
almost like headquarters for them but private companies are
buckling under to "diversity" too. Click your bootheels
and salute. And the legacy of Ernst Rohm (GAY HITLER BROWNSHIRT LEADER) lives on.


18 posted on 10/27/2005 7:48:08 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is the "F" word for liberals)
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To: xsmommy

"University Code which prohibits harassment or discrimination based on, among other groups, sexual orientation"





Lots of wiggle room in that 'code'.

What is their definition of 'discrimination' or 'harrassment'.

Curiously, I wounder if Duquesne University considers bestiality, necrophilia, or pedophilia as covered in their definition of 'sexual orientation'.

Homosexuality was considered a paraphilia just as pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia.

(Paraphilias as defined by DSM-IV, are sexual impulse disorders characterized by intensely arousing, recurrent sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors (of at least six months' duration) that are considered deviant with respect to cultural norms and that produce clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of psychosocial functioning.)

Are those behaviours exempt from criticism as well at Duquesne University?


19 posted on 10/27/2005 7:51:32 AM PDT by ReaganLegion
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To: whitedog57

"I was referring to my mother-in-law!"

LOL!


20 posted on 10/27/2005 7:52:11 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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