A rare victory against liberal fascism, but not the last:
A US District Judge has blocked the Los Angeles Community College District from enforcing its sexual harassment policy, which the judge ruled had promoted a hostile environment for the free speech rights of a Christian student.
U.S. District Judge George H. King agreed with Jonathan Lopez, a student attending Los Angeles City College (LACC), that the District’s policy as written had created the environment that emboldened his speech professor to call Lopez a “fascist ba***rd” for explaining his Christian beliefs and how they related to his views against same-sex “marriage.” …
…Represented by lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund, Lopez had filed a lawsuit against the District and LACC back in February after he had been censored and threatened with expulsion by Professor John Matteson, who had assigned the members of his public-speaking class in mid-November to give an informational speech on any topic.
Lopez decided to give an informational speech to students on his own Christian beliefs, including Christian views on marriage. Lopez had read aloud the definition of marriage from the dictionary and had also quoted two verses from the Bible, when Matteson interjected in the middle of the speech and called Lopez a “fascist ba***rd” before his classmates.
Matteson refused to let Lopez finish, and instead invited other students to leave if they felt offended. But with no student taking up Matteson’s invitation to depart, Matteson ordered the class dismissed. Instead of giving the assignment a grade, Matteson mocked Lopez on his written evaluation, taunting, “Ask God what your grade is.”
A week after the incident, Matteson threatened to see to Lopez’s expulsion after he saw Lopez speaking with the college’s dean of academic affairs.
Faced with legal action, the District disciplined Matteson, and gave Lopez an A in the course; however the ADF argued that the District’s sexual harassment policy had created an environment in which Matteson felt comfortable to intimidate Lopez from stating his beliefs.
Thank God Mr. Lopez was like a rock in his faith – a lot of people, faced with that sort of hatred and intimidation, would have backed down. This is one of the best (or worst, as it were) examples of liberal fascism we’ve seen lately – an allegedly enlightened liberal censors free speech and then attempts to punish the person who dared dissent from the liberal party line. This is not a rare event, either: speech codes and other fascist tactics at our institutions of higher learning are routinely used to suppress anti-liberal thought and intimidate students into a mindless conformity to authortarian views.
Now, liberals: what say you to this? You can try to spin your way out of it – and be tagged as a lick spittle coward…or you can admit there is a fundamental malfunction in your worldview. That, just perhaps, liberty and liberalism are not the same thing – that they are, indeed, at war with each other.
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