My latest in PJ Media:
If an embattled teacher at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy High School in Kansas City had been doing something innocuous such as getting a lap dance from students, he would likely still be at work now. But this teacher made the mistake instead of speaking about his Christian faith in class, and specifically about his rejection of Islam and homosexuality. That was way over the line for his zealous young charges, who arrived in his class after years of relentless Leftist indoctrination. They surreptitiously recorded him and reported him to school officials. The teacher has been duly suspended, and the woke order of things preserved at Lincoln High. For now.
Kansas City’s KCTV reported Thursday that the teacher had been “placed on leave because of some controversial comments he made in class.” Did he defend performing cruel and painful medical experiments on puppies? Did he speak out in favor of opening the border and letting any number of criminals and terrorists waltz into the country? Did he call for giving $450,000 to some of the illegal entrants who were inconvenienced upon their arrival in this inexhaustibly generous land? Come on, man! None of that would be controversial!
No, what this incorrigible miscreant teacher did was begin “preaching about Christianity, then disparaging Muslims and LGBTQ+ people.” Or at least that’s how KCTV summarizes what happened. The student who began recording what the teacher was saying doesn’t recount any “disparaging” remarks at all, but only disagreement. As far as the establishment Left is concerned, merely disagreeing with their agenda is disparagement, so KCTV’s tendentious characterization is at least understandable, if not excusable.
KCTV5 says they “talked with a student with his mom’s permission and agreed not to use his name to keep strangers from contacting him.” That’s good because you know how those “white supremacists” are always stalking around, hunting for prey. “That student was in the class where it happened Monday. He said it came out of the blue 10 minutes into class.”
The student described what happened this way: “And then he kind of got a little emotional and said, ‘If I get fired for this, I don’t really care. I care more about you guys’ and then started to say stuff about how God loves us and he’s going to save us and how if you don’t, like, basically convert to Christianity, then you’re going to live a bad life. It was very uncomfortable.”
I’m sure it was, but unless this teacher was telling them they all had to convert to Christianity or get a failing grade, he was simply expressing opinions that students were free to accept or reject. But nowadays, expressing non-Leftist opinions is strictly forbidden. And so, “Students then started debating with the teacher, he said. He recorded a portion of the interchange on his phone and shared the video with KCTV, which goes as follows…
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Terry Gain says
After reading the headline I did not know whether the teacher or student was suspended, though if it was the latter this site would probably not regard what happened as newsworthy. The lack of clarity is one of my many peeves. Was it too difficult to say “Teacher Suspended “ rather than the ambiguous “gets him suspended”?
I post this comment because I have great respect for Robert Spencer who is one of a few prominent people who support free speech.
mortimer says
Calumny is not an innocent sin or a small matter easy to forgive. Calumny is the intentional destruction of a person’s good name and reputation by the use of lies. This can lead to someone losing their job and all hope of future employment.
Calumny is a particularly evil sin … a combination of lies and intentional slander. That is what they did to this teacher who committed no wrong-doing.
Alan Dershowitz uses the ‘shoe-on-the-other-foot’ test to find out if something is a reasonable accusation. If a Muslim teacher or Buddhist teacher could speak of his faith in class and a Christian could not, then the law is not being applied evenly.
Raja says
Mortimer,
Isn’t that called injustice in “primitive” societies?
Keith O says
Was this Kansas City 2021 or Stalinist Russia in the late 40s?
I read the reports of what is happening across America and I have grave concerns for the people and the nation as a whole.
somehistory says
Coming to Kansas soon:
https://gellerreport.com/2021/10/warning-disturbing-video-muslim-mob-throws-elderly-woman-off-bus-in-belgium.html/
“WARNING! DISTURBING VIDEO: Muslim Mob Throws Elderly Woman Off Bus in Belgium”
“Elderly woman in Belgium called ‘racist’, thrown off bus with head injury after suspected fight with Moroccans (VIDEO)”
“The left deliberately imported this savagery into the West and stand with these neanderthals.”
I believe that this comment is an insult to the Neanderthals, but it’s hard to come up with words that truly describe the evil…demonic sons of the devil…without insulting another… harmless …creature.
“The voice behind the camera says, “She was sent away from the bus… She offended a Moroccan and look what happens to her,”
ah, these adherents of islam are oh-so-sweet-tempered….disgusting slime, worms would oppose them being near.
PRCS says
“demonic sons of the devil”
More superstitious mumbo jumbo.
Muslims believe that “Satan” nonsense, too.
Lorensacho says
I guess that gay students would find things difficult if their teacher told them that they are sinners destined for Hell. Haters like that do not belong in classrooms.