Teacher to student: If you don't support gay marriage, drop my class

Fox News ^ | November 22, 2014 | Todd Starnes

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Students who oppose gay marriage are homophobic, according to an audio recording of a Marquette University instructor who went on to say that gay right issues cannot be discussed in class because it might offend homosexuals.

I reached out to the 20-year-old student at the center of this outrageous episode and the story he tells should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks religious schools are safe havens for open discourse.

The story was first reported on a blog run by a Marquette University professor and was picked up by the good folks over at The College Fix.

The young man, who asked not to be identified, explained what happened when his ethics instructor, Cheryl Abbate, led a conversation in “Theory of Ethics” class about applying philosophical theories to modern political controversies. There were a list of issues on the board – gay rights, gun rights, and the death penalty.

“We had a discussion on all of them – except gay rights,” the student told me. “She erased that line from the board and said, ‘We all agree on this.’”

[usurper]

I’m so tired of these insane women.

Yes they have become a walking caricature of what the say they are against. They display daily the following female attributes they SCREAM don't exist.

1. Women are so week they can't be exposed to anything that might hurt their feelings.

2. Women are bossy.

3. Women are prone to emotional outbursts.

4. Women are fragile and prone to hysterical ranting.

5. Men must protect women from emotional pain by not offending them.

The list is endless. They are the embodiment of their own hate.

[Delta Dawn]

The only policy that Marquette needs to adopt is the policy where they fire her a**...pompous b***h...

[Carry_Okie]

A feminist equivalent of Ward Churchill.

[duffee]

“Teacher to student: If you don’t support gay marriage, drop my class”

If this is not made clear in the course introduction and you drop the class do you get a refund?

[Carry_Okie]

The best way to get rid of the unions ( permanently) is to shut down the government’s K-12 single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools!

Just HOW do you propose to do that politically?

[HiTech RedNeck]

It does sound like an odd fit.

People fling this term “gay rights” around without regard to its multivalent nature. Every “gay” person has always had the right to marry someone of the opposite gender. The right to have the sad, empty souled, neurotic obsession of homophilia considered as equivalent to the noble love that is the peak of holy matrimony, stops where my brain starts.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They rage against where they are, while refusing to embrace the Lord that can lift them above that sad situation.

[Vaduz]

Gay = Fear of Normal

[DPMD]

There’s something so wrong about having this woman’s name and the word “class” in the same sentence.

She’s an extreme zealot hick, whose beliefs are so fragile and factually unfounded that she senses they won’t bear up under dissent.

[BobNative]

Cheryl Abbate’s eMail address is:

cheryl.abbate@marquette.edu

[wardaddy]

With all due respect

Women like this have simply never been desired by nor ever had multiple fulfilling sex with a man

No passion love or intimacy from a man

Nor probably approved by dad

They got the ugly stick and they’re bitter.

And feminism brought forth their fury two generations ago

Its sure been fun

[Elsie]

No thanks needed.

I’m just a messenger.

(Kinda like Balaam’s ride...)

[Elsie]

Abortion, while legal, is wrong.

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 55 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 55 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Elsie]

I reached out to the 20-year-old student at the center of this outrageous episode ..

This sounds like something the media wants Cosby to admit...

[wintertime]

Institute a very very small tax credit ( better) or voucher ( not so good) for children with disabilities. Dyslexia is a disability, by the way.

Then...As some children on the block go to private school, the other parents begin to say, “Hey! How come **that** kid gets a tax credit to go to a local, safe, and effective private school and my kid doesn't?

Or....Offer a very very very few vouchers, then have parents line up by the hundreds in lines circling the block as the await the annual lottery pick. Be sure to show plenty of Youtubes of kids and parents crying because they didn't win.

Do that and political power for chance will build.

Do I think vouchers or tax credits are the best? No, I don't but they can be a means to break up the government school price-fixed monopoly and build a private infrastructure. Gradually, parents should be expected to pay for schooling. Gee! It's amazing how parents can pay for daycare but once a kid is 5 they insist on government babysitting ( oops! “schooling”).

The best of all worlds would be complete separation of school and state.

[WKUHilltopper]

“(Kinda like Balaam’s ride...)”

LOL! Naaa, you’re not!

[dfwgator]

Students should always check professors’ ratings online to make sure they don’t sign up for sicko wackadoodle classes.

You don't think these kinds of classes won't eventually become MANDATORY in order to graduate, regardless of degree?

[Carry_Okie]

1. Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision re Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988).
2. Amend the National Labor Relations Act to eliminate union exemption from anti-trust law (an equal protection issue if I ever saw one).
3. Eliminate State teacher certification standards, thus allowing any professional proficient in a subject eligible to teach. A teacher’s tested results are what counts.
4. Eliminate State supervision of home education.
5. Offer State corporate service associations to local school districts, so that they can divest into highly localized service areas. Place authority over teacher employment, materials, and curriculum under a school principal directly accountable to parents of currently-enrolled students.
6. Drive general college education requirements onto secondary schools and end those requirements for college degrees, thus dedicating them to training and research.
7. Focus upon identifying and producing more high-level generalists, perhaps mentored by a specific academic/career path.
8. Use the private and home education market to develop and test learning tools and services. Accredit effective services for use in public schools.
9. Allow school boards to select validated educational products and services for use in public schools. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance.
10. Assist formation of corporate service associations. Offer State funding for local school districts to divest into smaller, more personalized institutions.
11. Private validation services could assess educational product performance against product claims.
12. Eliminate child labor laws for those meeting specific test standards. Allow that work experience to be the core of a generalist academic career path. Entrepreneurs can make great mentors.
13. Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting unfunded mandates. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
14. Allow unrestricted access to state licensure via insured private testing.

[Gen.Blather]

“Are you in a heavily regulated industry, like pharmaceutical manufacturing or weapons systems? (Just a yes or no will do.) “

It was a defense plant. The annoying thing wasn’t security. We had a naturalized native Chinese employee who regularly did things I thought inappropriate. But we had no secret or top secret stuff. Just the stuff that makes the Abram’s tank a world-beater. Believe it or not nothing there is secret.

[Gen.Blather]

“OK, so leave the badge at your desk when you go to the restroom and lunchroom. “

You were supposed to wear the badge prominently at all times. This particular guy was intimidating enough that nobody said anything. But given that I don’t have the I’ll-kill-you-in-a-heartbeat facial expression, I had to wear mine or somebody would comment. Also, if you had to access certain areas you’d have to walk a long way back to your desk to retrieve it.