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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.

I wonder if she realizes that if they revoke the policy, it can allow everyone on campus who finds her views idiotic and closeminded to pretty much torment the hell out of her.

Comments

[angry-user.livejournal.com]

I've personally wanted to bitchslap that fucking twat since I first heard about her. What's the term... "overdeveloped sense of entitlement". Please someone kick her off campus and be done with it.

[uglor.livejournal.com]

I'd much prefer she gets the policy revoked, so they can start the "Ruth Malhotra is an ignorant bitch" club.

[angry-user.livejournal.com]

that already exists.
git.talk.flame

heh

[(Anonymous)]

i think "Die in a Fire" might be appropriate here...

or perhaps her name on a cross in flames as a free campus shirt give-away...

[thatmadgirl.livejournal.com]

*blink* Wow. What does she want to do, like... stand out in the middle of the camponile and condemn all the sinners to hell over a loudspeaker?

[eneref.livejournal.com]

They actually used to do that. It was a highlight of my freshman year. Some religious nuts would stand up in what is NOW the camponile area and rail against the men who were demons and the women who were whores.

Apparently, they were the only enlightened ones, and they felt it their need to share.

[mumpish.livejournal.com]

I don't agree with her politics, but I think she's right. At least, I'd much rather live in a world where I sometimes have to hear a thing or two I don't like or agree with than live in a world where only certain viewpoints are permissible. There is still, according to my reading of the Constitution, no right to not be offended.

[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

..As long as she can take what she is dishing out. I agree with you on free speech, but it will be interesting to see her reaction to the criticism she will receive as a result.

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

free speech yes, all for it, but isn't there something about schools being exempt from that? something about disruption, and it held up in court? memory is fuzzy.

[fuzbal.livejournal.com]

I coudln't have said it better. Absolutely agree with ya.

[eneref.livejournal.com]

There's a reason that sort of thing isn't allowed in colleges. People are paying money to be there, and it's a really a matter of please the most number of customers (who don't want to hear it). It's like at work.... if I went around saying women were in league with the devil, they'd fire me for being a dick. Colleges can't simply FIRE people because there's a legally binding monetary contract, so they have to implement policies which allow them to control disruption on the campus.

It's a business. You're allowed to say what you want to say, but they own the property and should be allowed to kick you off it for being a prat.

[saluki.livejournal.com]

I agree with Beaker's nonagreement. Rules prohibiting angry speech promote mind control. That being said, who would dare torment this lamb of God? She has Christ on her side.

How much are lions? Anyone know?

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

i have heard of some really stupid lawsuits recently, but this takes the cake.

[(Anonymous)]

If you really care about free speech, then yes, you'll let people say what's on their minds, even when it's ugly. Just because you don't like what she's saying doesn't mean you have the right to shut her up. It's scary to think that everyone assumes laws or institutional policies against speech are acceptable in cases where they don't like that brand of speech.

[quandry.livejournal.com]

Er, that was me. Didn't realize I wasn't logged in.

[uglor.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty rabidly pro free speech. I'm just wondering if she realizes that revoking the tolernace policy would mean everyone on campus who finds her views hateful and closeminded could now harras the shit out of her.

The secondary annoyance is the whole "I need to say bad things about gay people because jesus said to" angle. Christians pretty much run this country, and are developing a huge persecution complex about being "under attack." There are a lot of non-christians and non-idiotic christians who believe religion shouldn't be a blunt object to use in fag bashing.

Face it, Jesus was a big hippie, all about love thy neighbor, poor people and those icky lepers. It's the Christians who use religion as an excuse for their own sense of superiority and petty hatreds that piss me off.

[quandry.livejournal.com]

Eh, the Christians don't run this country as much as they used to, which is why you see a backlash and the attempt to build up a persecution complex. It's a way of rallying the troops for a last gasp. It's not going to work, and I don't care to prolong the inevitable by giving them the fuel to fire their persecution complex.

But yeah, the real Jesus would have never, ever treated gays the way that some Christians do. The opinions of various Christian students I've talked to about the issue is that gays are no bigger sinners than anyone else on the planet - which isn't hard to do since we ALL belong in Hell. But hey, I can live with an equal-opportunity philosophy like that ;-) It's the ones who think they're going to Heaven who give me the creeps.

As for whether she realizes that everyone could lay into her, eh, I bet she knows it. I'm sure she's figured out by now that not everyone on campus thinks she's right. As I remember them, GA Tech folks aren't so steeped in the social graces that they gracefully omit their opinions from conversations where it might cause a confrontation. I figure anyone who's put herself into this role is probably looking for some heat. Getting a big hyperventilating combative reaction is exactly what she wants.

[xopherg.livejournal.com]

The Technique story

[xopherg.livejournal.com]

I also like this quote out of context:

"Think how marginalized racists are," said Baylor, who directs the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom. "If we don't address this now, it will only get worse."

Baylor, fighting to un-marginalize racism!

[physicaljerx.livejournal.com]

wow. her logic makes my head explode.

[poodleface.livejournal.com]

I will respond to this in old git.talk.flame style

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[tigress666.livejournal.com]

They probably already do.

And, I agree with her. But, that means I can also tell her how stupid I think her religion is (or at least her interpretation that it insist she must go around passing judgement on people).