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Silence the Christian: Offense at their very Existence

Term paper about ‘God’ earns student failing grade

A student at Victory Valley Community College was given a failing grade for using the word “God” in her term paper. The options she was given when challenging it was to revise, rewrite, or take another topic. The reason the administration gave is because using “God” with a capital G would offend people.

In this case, it isn’t even a paper meant to evangelize, it is a paper expressing an opinion. The fact that the student capitalized God indicates her personal faith, a faith that’s very existence is offensive to her instructor and school. They failed her because some would be offended at the simple fact she was a Christian. On campuses where one can wear various logos of the GLBT movement, communism, the Democratic Party, and other liberal causes, the very thought of a student indicated she believes in God is offensive and needs to be suppressed.

The ACLJ is representing her in this case. (The ACLJ is a conservative version of the ACLU, or better yet, what the ACLU should be). The say:

The ACLJ said his actions are unconstitutional. “A student’s constitutional free speech rights to express religious views are fully protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments,” the ACLJ wrote.

In addition to an apology and a re-grading of Hauf’s paper, the ACLJ demands Shefchik “receive some kind of training to sensitize him to the constitutional dimensions of his employment in a public educational institution, including his duty to respect constitutional freedoms of expression.”

Contact Info:

Department Head mentioned in story:
Judy Solis solisj@vvc.edu English Instructor, English 760-245-2330

Instructor:
Michael Shefchik shefchikm@vvc.edu English Adjunct Instructor

University President:
Patricia Spencer spencerp@vvc.edu President’s Office Superintendent/President 760-245-2544

Contact them and let them know you don’t support their outrageous and unconstitutional suppression and outright attack on all things Christian.

July 11th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Religion | 2 comments