Oh, boy, is this one going to run and run

[dianeduane]

Christians Sue For Right Not To Tolerate Policies

Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

And a little further on in the article we find out why:

In their lawsuit against Georgia Tech, Malhotra and her co-plaintiff, a devout Jewish student named Orit Sklar, request unspecified damages. But they say their main goal is to force the university to be more tolerant of religious viewpoints.

So let me get this straight. They're suing to stop tolerance...to increase tolerance? (headclutch)

I have got to stop reading the news before I've had my tea. (staggers off, muttering)

Tags: Christianity, religion, tolerance, intolerance, no I don't mean the film and I really wish I did

Comments

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

While the student is unlikely to win damages, the college is going to lose on the speech code issue—whenever it's come up before, U.S. federal courts have ruled that public-college bans on offensive speech (http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/5822.html) (however defined) are inconsistent with first-amendment protections of speech.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

Ah, but they're not banning offensive speech at all. This is a civil suit, because she got reprimanded for harassment and is being petulant. Harassment has all sorts of fed. court. precedent, mostly 'don't do it.' If they were banning it, it would be one thing, but from what the article is implying, they school doesn't have a policy on speaking out against gays and lesbians, it has a policy that no student should harass another for any reason.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

nevermind. just re-read the article....