Interesting point about humanities classes in college.  From the Ledger

Polk State College has rejected Liberty Counsel's call to fire a professor, and the college's lawyers say the claim that a student was the victim of discrimination because of her Christian religious beliefs is "baseless, without merit, and absolutely lacking any factual support."

In a letter to the Liberty Counsel on Wednesday, Polk State's lawyers defended Humanities Professor Lance Russum and said there was nothing discriminatory or abusive about his actions. They said Russum's course and its assignments supported the idea of a "robust exchange of ideas" in education.

They also said he was supportive, offering the student explanations of the grades and encouraging her to be open to new ideas.

"The overall fallacy of your position rests singly on the premise that an instructor should not require a student to consider, discuss or present arguments that are contrary to his/her personal beliefs," said the letter from the law firm, Boswell and Dunlap of Bartow, that is representing Polk State. "Such a position shows apparent ignorance of long-standing academic practice."

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In a free society, people have the right to express ideas, even if others find them offensive, hurtful or blasphemous. That principle deserves to be defended, even if it sometimes puts us in noxious company. And as atheists and freethinkers, we ought to be especially alert to the danger of a religious sect trying to declare its ideas off-limits to mockery or criticism. There’s value in openly defying a taboo to show it has no power over us. -

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