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WZ Oct 2 2017
I heard this story, driving home this evening from work on the beginning of Fortress of Faith before I parked in our parking garage.
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'University Of Texas Threatened To Expel Gay Student For Saying Islamic Countries Kill People For Being Gay…'
Alfred MacDonald left University of Texas at San Antonio after feeling ‘difficult to stay motivated’.
He had made the comments during an out-of-class conversation with another graduate student. They had been discussing the ‘religious leanings of philosophy professors. He pointed out that in some Muslim countries, he could be executed for being bisexual. A few days after the conversation, he was called in for a meeting with Dr Eve Browning.
She is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. MacDonald studied here at the time. This event took place in September 2016 but Alfred MacDonald only went public with it this summer. Dr Eve Browning said if his behavior continued, he would be referred to the student conduct board. She said they would recommend dismissal.
A university head of department threatened a bisexual student with dismissal after he made a comment regarding LGBTI executions in Islamic countries.'
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I reason that every worldview, every philosophy/theology, is up for a reasonable, respectful, critical review. Especially on a University campus, a supposed place of learning at all times, one would hope.
It is called living in a Western democracy. That means other people with a different worldview, philosophy/theology than you have, have the right to exist and publicly opine.
