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Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. Ref
1 posted on 08/27/2015 2:23:32 PM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 08/27/2015 2:24:00 PM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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So now it’s not just porn, but comic book porn?

Parents, is this the literature course you want for your freshmen at Duke?


3 posted on 08/27/2015 2:25:47 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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I dream of the day when stocks and pillory await those of the homosexual persuasion


4 posted on 08/27/2015 2:27:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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people are going into debt to read lesbo porn.

an aleternative...the trade schools. 2 years learn a trade that pays good. Just paid a washing repair guy $200 and I was one of many of his clients that day.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 2:28:54 PM PDT by RginTN
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Members of the board of trustees do have to be approved by one of the Methodist conventions.

If they quit rubber stamping appointees they could seize control of the university back.

That they did not do so after the LaCrosse fiasco proves that this stuff is in line with the people in the denomination.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 2:29:31 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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re: But others from the class of 2019 responded, “Reading the book will allow you to open your mind to a new perspective and to examine a way of life and thinking with which you are unfamiliar.”

I can just guess how open these students would be to being asked to read from the Bible so they could “open your mind to a new perspective and to examine a way of life and thinking with which you are unfamiliar.” Yeah. Right. That would be so offensive and an example of cramming religion down their throat. But lesbians sex? Just mind opening.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 2:29:34 PM PDT by Nevadan
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Good this needs to start somewhere.....


8 posted on 08/27/2015 2:31:35 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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"“Reading the book will allow you to open your mind to a new perspective and to examine a way of life and thinking with which you are unfamiliar.”"

That's not a very good argument.

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The author of this is a Rachel Maddow look-alike.

It's interesting to see how much the way she dresses and grooms herself looks like her representation of her father in the image above.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 2:34:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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The university says the assignment was optional and won’t discipline the holdouts.

Typical lib tactic. Introduce something and gauge the reaction. Then issue a non-apology apology and briefly retreat. Then round up useful idiots to protest against "discrimination" and introduce the subject matter by brute force.

11 posted on 08/27/2015 2:36:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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Don’t worry parents. The book was on Ellen Degenerate’s recommended reading list! /s


12 posted on 08/27/2015 2:37:08 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Is it necessary for them to attend this course? Can’t they enroll in another one?

Just drop it and move on.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 2:44:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (qu)
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Too bad our grammar school kids can’t toss the “I’ve got two mommies” books they’re being fed.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 2:56:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Reading the book will allow you to open your mind to a new perspective and to examine a way of life and thinking with which you are unfamiliar.”

Then the students should read Mein Kampf and the works of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Only the homos get to ‘expand minds’ eh?


21 posted on 08/27/2015 3:19:01 PM PDT by Viennacon (I)
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“It was like Duke didn’t know we existed, which surprises me.”

They know you exist. They just hate you. So why are you giving them tens of thousands of your dollars?

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23 posted on 08/27/2015 3:27:05 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Bake The Cake!


26 posted on 08/27/2015 3:38:49 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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Kudos to this young man. These university goons would run into a burning building with a can of gasoline before they would promote a book with Judeo-Christian values. Yet they will push this type of filth any day of the week.


30 posted on 08/27/2015 5:09:08 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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What is this comic rated? I assume they don’t let minors buy it.


32 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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In the same vein students wrote the Duke student newspaper Chronicle, mocking the dissenters...

Yeah, imagine what would they would say if the Bible was on the reading list.

35 posted on 08/27/2015 6:52:01 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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More bad pub for The Gang of 88 U.


36 posted on 08/28/2015 4:59:38 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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These religious colleges students who refuse to read a book that was assigned to them are no better or worse than students on the political left who refuse to read certain books that were assigned to them. Just because you are assigned to read a book doesn’t mean you have to like it. What it does mean is that you are supposed to be exposed to ideas that are different from your regular way of thinking, even if you end up hating the book after reading it. I don’t want to support these religious students in their boycott for the same reason I don’t want to support students on the radical left who refuse to read certain books.


38 posted on 08/28/2015 2:53:08 PM PDT by grundle
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