Sure, Bill Donohue may be a total douche, but let’s not rush to judge all religious types (lest we be judged, or whatever): a number of students at the Christian-minded Spring Arbor University have come out in support of ordained minister-turned-trannie, Professor John Julie Nemecek.
Nemecek got sacked after coming out as a woman, if you will. After working with the Michigan University for 16 loyal years, Nemecek started dabbling in cross-dressing, charting a course down the road to womanhood (period not included). The university didn’t take too kindly to that and told Nemecek he would no longer be welcome to teach there, insisting his actions violated their “Christian” guidelines. Sticking it to the man, a number of students have protested the school’s discriminatory actions. Not surprisingly, their chants and statements invoked the very Bible the school cherishes so dearly. One student said, “Jesus promotes love not discrimination”, while another insisted, “Christ taught us to love people that are outcasts, if this school rehired her, that would be demonstrating Christ’s love”.
The school, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to agree – they’re sticking to their guns. Whether they’ll be so strident at next month’s hearings on the matter…well, that remains to be seen.
Threnody
Hooray for religious people with common decency. All those whack jobs (*cough*pope*cough*) give the rest of them a bad name.
Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
The real question is going to be whether the law will let the university get away with this. There are exceptions for religious organizations to discriminate. You can find a discussion of the legal issues on my blog, http://jweissdiary.blogspot.com
Drew Hinkle (rally organizer)
Thanks for spreading this story!
R.L.F.
How can a transmission be a teacher?
Now I can understand if this teacher used that term to self identify but I have yet to read any quotes that suggest that.
So why not use the terms she uses as part of her own self identification? Why use such a term which so many find objectionable?