Posted on 11/12/2018 1:43:49 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A professor at a small public university in Ohio is suing officials at the school after he received a written rebuke for not addressing a transgender student using the preferred gender pronouns.
Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court this month against university officials.
The lawsuit asserts that university officials violated his constitutional rights by compelling him to speak in a way that contradicts his religious beliefs, according to NBC News.
Meriwether is an evangelical Christian, and as such, felt that speaking to a transgender student in their preferred pronoun would have “forced him to violate his sincerely held Christian beliefs,” the lawsuit states.
Meriwether, who has been with the university since 1996, felt he was “silenced by the school.”
“In January 2018, a male student demanded that Dr. Meriwether address him as a woman because he identified as such and threatened to have Dr. Meriwether fired if he declined,” according to the lawsuit filed on Nov. 5.
The lawsuit states that once Meriwether refused to call the student by the preferred pronouns, the student became “belligerent” and said “Then I guess this means I can call you a (expletive),” according to local paper the Portsmouth Daily Times.
After the student complained to the university, the lawsuit alleges the school “punished” Meriwether for “expressing views that differ from its own orthodoxy and for declining to express its mandated ideological message.”
The lawsuit was filed on Meriwether’s behalf by conservative Christian law firm the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), according to NBC News.
The lawsuit claims “the number of potential gender identities is infinite” and states there are “over one hundred different options currently available.”
Shawnee State University declined to comment to NBC on the lawsuit but said in a statement that it values “freedom of expression” and maintains “an educational and work environment that is free from discrimination, retaliation and harassment.”
Only in Amerika.
Sir, You can identify as a woman, but I identify you as a man.
Sir, You can identify as a woman, but I identify you as a man.
How about if everybody is called “You”
How about we just call it straight?
To get around this BS we should start referring to biological sex. There are only two. One’s sex is either male or female. Do not refer to genders at all. People have sex. Words have gender.
a male student demanded that Dr. Meriwether address him as a woman
why doesn’t the student just put Phd after his name and tell everyone to call him Doctor - why go to school?
People can ignore reality, but they cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality, nor can they force others to share their delusions.
This is actually a huge deal in Canada. Jordan B. Peterson is very big on this topic (he's Canadian) and is wonderfully forceful when he explains that he will NOT submit to rules about how he has to speak.
If I were that professor, I’d refer to that frozen vegetable an apparently sentient blob of protoplasm. Or better yet just him an a-hole since everybody has one.
It’s a public school and thus subject to the first amendment.
They cannot force the professor.
If a guy comes up to you wearing a dress, how do you know what to call him?
Over 100 identity options now. Last I heard there were 53. The clowns who started this were probably just pranking and now they’re laughing it up.
We really are the slaves of fools, all because we rejected Genesis 1-15.
I hate to say this here, but this thread is useless (if more pleasant) without pictures.
How far along in the transition was this erstwhile male? If not so far along, it would have looked like a cross-dressing man. I’m not clear at what stage in the transition/mutilation sequence one has to adopt or guess the right pronoun.
Its time for serious tear-down and reform in US “higher education.” Its time to pop this runaway bubble
The education-industrial complex has become a purely leftist echo-chamber, and political bloc. — funded by massive government spending (ie. debt) and also massive debt and indentured servitude from young people.
It would also be a huge political winner. I don’t know why Trump has not grabbed this issue with both hands.
Simple - everyone has to be tested at birth.
If they are XX, their ID shows “FEMALE”,
If they are XY, their ID shows “MALE”.
They can then dress up and play however they choose.
Does the Constitution allow any institution to compel anyone to say something or support something they don't believe?
A win would be a big step to returning to the principle of freedom of speech. It would also be a hit to 'hate speech' laws.
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