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Oklahoma university instructor on leave after failing Bible-based essay on gender (apnews.com)

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An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses amid President Donald Trump’s push to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and restrict how campuses discuss issues of race, gender and sexuality.

“OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student’s right to express sincerely held religious beliefs,” the university wrote in an email on Wednesday.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Utter horseshit.

Go read the "essay". It's online, and it sounds like it was written by a fifth grader sitting in a Sunday School. It's completely inappropriate for a science course, and this stupid motherfucker should have gotten a failing grade.

There is no right people hold more dear in this country than their presumed right of stupidity.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of another famous essay

What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time. I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They're very good for Christmas. I don't think that a football's a very good Christmas present.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Not only that, if she’d been at a school of theology, she still would have got a failing grade. Her essay doesn’t even “prove” what she states based on her source material.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, that was something.

I'm fed up being told how I'm supposed to live according to their interpretation of a collection of 2000 year old stories. Like if you choose to live your life according to that book, live your best life. But I'll be damned if I'll let it be forced on me.