Posted on 03/15/2018 2:39:12 PM PDT by detective
A student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was kicked out of a religious studies course when he stood up in class to argue that, biologically, there are only two genders.
As reported by Campus Reform, Religious Studies major Lake Ingle was in a class February 28 that included a video lecture by “transgender woman” Paula Stone Williams, a man who used to be a prominent pastor and church planter before deciding that he felt more comfortable as a woman.
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SUE THE BASTARDS!!
Perhaps but it won’t solve the underlying, the schools have been hijacked and anyone who attends is required to take these classes taught by quacks posing as academics and regurgitate the twaddle back in order to graduate.
It’s a twisted form of entertainment. Nobody actually believes this shit, but forcing the normals to marinate in the sewerage (and pay $$$ for the privilege) is a lot of fun.
If there were an opposition party in the state legislatures or Washington city some of this crap might be avoided. Really sick.
Where’ve you been? Have you ever taken a “Religious Studies” course?
Don’t you mean “them” or “they”? Apparently it applies to gender fluid entities. Or something. And discussions are needed?
And Pelosi says the wall is uncivilized.
As strange as this seems, George Orwell predicted it all in his greatest work 1984. His Hero and broken Hero worked for the “Ministry of Truth”, Harry Winston.
Actually his work of equal greatness was “Letters from Catalonia.” Orwell went to Spain to fight for the communists and there discovered the dark underbelly of communism. They tried to kill him while in Spain and he was on their side. Heretics were not to be tolerated. His time in Spain was the basis of thought that created 1984.
To his death he remained a socialist light quasi libertarian. If he had lived 20 years more he would have been a conservative hard right.
A most brilliant man was George Orwell. He found out that communism was a great evil. He did not realize the same about socialism as he died young. He would have if he lived longer.
They don’t want the truth and it’s obvious he won’t change their minds no matter what.
Don’t play their game, don’t give in to their wicked demands.
I suppose he could fight it, but it’s likely a waste of his time, so just leave.
Can’t upset the Thought Police
I don’t know why the school is anti-science.
Sex/gender is determined by the 23rd chromosome and not by “feelings”.
There are two sexes. Genders are for Spanish nouns.
We live in a country in which fascism is active practiced. Individuals are fired or arrested for not accepting the official party line. There is no more first amendment.
Trump has no interest in changing this.
“From a Religious Studies class even!”
They don’t mean religion as in Christian. Some claim witchcraft / devil worship as their religion. This class fits under that classification.
Dr. Alison Downie earned her PhD in Systematic Theology at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) with a concentration in Christian Feminist Theology. Her academic interests include ecofeminist theologies, disability theologies, religious understandings of self and memoir.
Downie’s previous publications include “A Spirituality of Openness: Christian Ecofeminist Perspectives and Inter-religious Dialogue,” which appeared in Feminist Theology 2014, Vol. 23(1): 55–70
Downie teaches World Religions, Christianity, Philosophy of Religion, and Understanding the Bible; she also teaches upper-level seminar courses in Christian Feminist Theology and Religious Autobiography. She is affiliated faculty for the Women’s and Gender Studies and the Sustainability Studies programs, and serves as the advising coordinator for the Religious Studies Department.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail: alison.downie@iup.edu
Religious Studies Department
Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Room 505
981 Grant Street
Indiana, PA 15705
Phone: 724-357-1360
Fax: 724-357-4039
Indiana U has always emphasized the humanities. You want to study science? Go to Purdue.
Downie has a PhD in Advanced Garble-Speak and Word Salad. These publications and their titles make no sense and convey no understandable ideas or theories.
It appears that the IUP Religious Studies Department has a theme.... our tax dollars at work brainwashing our children!
I already posted the bio for Professor Alison Downie.. Here are a few more of the five faculty in the Department.
DR. THERESA SMITH
Dr. Smith Smith received her PhD in Religious and Theological Studies in 1990 from Boston University. Her areas of specialization include Myth and Ritual Studies, Native American Religions, and Traditional European/British Paganism and Neo-Paganism.
Her course for this voyage will focus on Northern European pre-Christian religions, their connection to landscape and identity, and their role as inspiration for contemporary pagan revivalist movements.
Smith serves as intern supervisor and advisor to the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion as well as the Religious Studies Club. She regularly teaches World Religions, Native North American Religions, Women and Religion; Neo-Paganism, Experiential Studies in Great Britain, Religion and Sexual Diversity, and Religion and Film.
DR. NIXON S. CLEOPHAT
During his tenure at Union Theological Seminary he engaged progressive theological traditions such as Christian Existentialist and Realist philosophies and theologies, and presented papers at and participated in several conferences of the American Academy of Religion.
Cleophat has also devoted a great deal of time researching the contours of African and diaspora indigenous religions, Black Power, Black Theology, African Liberation Theology, Latin American Liberation Theology, Womanist/Feminist Theological Ethics. He engages indigenous religious traditions because he is convinced they are liberative sources that can be used to address social and ecological problems affecting humanity, the historically oppressed, and the natural world.
Cleophat’s research project looks into how Haitian Vodou deals with sin, redemption, pneumatology, and ecology. He explores this topic in his dissertation, titled “A Critical Examination of Reinhold Niebuhr’s and James Cone’s Views on Sin and Redemption: toward a Haitian Vodounist Theology of Social Evil and Human Liberation.” Recently, he has expanded the scope of his research interest in a two-volume anthology: Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination (first vol.) and Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective (second vol.), which he is co-editing.
DR. T. NICOLE GOULET
At the heart of Goulet’s research interests is identifying the role and interplay of race, class, and gender as it relates to religion in general, and Hinduism specifically. These interests inform her current projects, including a collaborative effort on women, religion, and clothing, which is in its initial stages in development. These interests have also influenced how Goulet approaches and understands the study of religion in contemporary society, as can be noted in the following blog posts:
“Critical Questions Series 3: Category Formation and Eastern’‘ Traditions,” June 10, 2013
“Commentary on York University: Religious Freedom vs. Women’s Rights,” January 20, 2014
“Competing Representations,” March 3, 2014
“So You’re Not a Priest?,” June 1, 2016
“What’s In Your Syllabus?,” February, 2017
“What is a Feminazi?” April 20, 2017
LGBTQ Studies - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
IUP currently offers an 18-credit minor in LGBTQ Studies.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. LGBTQ Studies is an interdisciplinary program housed in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences that provides students the opportunity to critically examine diversity in sexual and gender identities.
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