Florida Professor Bullies Christian Student....
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel is challenging the work of a militant atheist professor intent on destroying his students' faith and issuing failing grades for expressing biblically based opinions.
Anti-religious bias and cultural attacks on students, teachers, administrators, and school systems are reaching epidemic proportions!
Liberty Counsel is committed to stand against these calculated attacks. Please see my update and call to action below – Mat.
A sixteen-year-old, dual-enrolled student, Grace Lewis, is the subject of religious intolerance by humanities professor Lance "L.J." Russum at Polk State College in Lakeland, Florida.
Grace and her parents reached out to Liberty Counsel when Russum gave her four (4) straight zeros because she refused to conform to his personal world views of Marxism, Atheism or "Anti-theism", Feminism, and homosexuality.
Professor Russum expressed blatant and pervasive anti-Christian bias throughout the class, such as the following essay question: “Why did Christianity, and its male gods, seek to silence these women [the nuns]?"In other essays where Grace refused to concede that Christianity was false, violent, or oppressive to women; that Martin Luther's motivations for the Reformation were wholly secular; and that Michelangelo's sculptures and paintings communicated that “same-sex relationship is NOT A SIN," Mr. Russum gave her a total of four straight zeros.
+ + Russum's classroom behavior is a reflection of his discriminatory personal biases.
Mr. Russum's Facebook likes and profile pictures include Fidel Castro and Jesus Christ making an obscene gesture.
His college email signature line includes a quote from a Marxist who praises Lenin, Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, and Adolf Hitler. These, along with the inappropriate course content, show that Professor Russum is seeking to impose his own values on students, in violation of the Constitution.
Liberty Counsel demanded (1) a full and independent review of Mr. Russum's behavior and course content; (2) appropriate grading of Grace's four "zero" assignments by a different professor; (3) a written apology; and (4) assurances that future courses taught by Mr. Russum, if any, will be free from such unlawful discrimination.
In its response, Polk State General Counsel concluded that no evidence of any discrimination exists because Grace received an overall grade of “A" for this class. Grace clearly earned the grade. However, the “A" was awarded only after Liberty Counsel's demand letter, and we have no reason to believe she would have received an appropriate grade based on the four straight zero grades and the professor's and the dean's prior communications.
A public college professor cannot openly discriminate against a student throughout a course and then award a good grade at the end to avoid accountability for the violations. We have drafted an open letter to the Polk State College administrators and Board of Trustees expressing our outrage over the blatant anti-Christian bigotry of Professor Lance "L.J." Russum. We expose the fact that his personal bias is infused into his classroom.
+ + Mr. Russum should not be permitted to use his position to punish students who do not conform to his anti-Christian views. According to its website, the college's core values are service, integrity, knowledge, diversity, and leadership. No student should be subjected to such outrageous bias and outright hostility to their values by a professor. Being a professor is not open season to belittle and punish students merely because they do not subscribe to the professor's radical opinions.
Under the guise of open-mindedness, tolerance and anti-bullying - these liberal-minded professors have become the closed-minded, intolerant BULLIES!
COMMENT: I SAY SEND ALL PROFESSORS AND FORIEGN .....WING-ER-WANGERS.... HOME....
1 comment:
Throw a slab of bacon on his desk.
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