SAN FRANCISCO – A former college biology professor is suing a Bay Area school district, claiming she was fired for answering a student's question about genetics and homosexual behavior.
June Sheldon with attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom and Pacific Justice Institute filed a suit on Wednesday against San Jose/Evergreen Community College district for wrong dismissal and violating her First Amendment rights.
In court papers, Sheldon said she was fired by the district after a student complained about her answer on how hereditary affects homosexual behavior in males and females. Attorneys representing the former San Jose City College professor argue that the district and school should have defended her, not terminated her.
“Teachers shouldn’t be punished for doing their job as educators. They know that students can’t be expected to make good, well-informed decisions if they’re only hearing part of the story,” said ADF attorney David Hacker in a statement.
“College officials have stripped a professor of the right to discuss competing theories and ideas in the classroom, something which represents the foundation of higher education.”
It was about one year ago when Sheldon, who was teaching a summer human hereditary course as an adjunct professor at SJCC, was asked by a student during class how hereditary affects homosexual behavior in males and females. The question was based on a quiz the student had taken earlier.
Sheldon, who holds a master's degree in biology from San Jose State University, told the student that a well-known German scientist had found a correlation between maternal stress and homosexual behavior in males.
She noted, however, that the scientist’s views are only one set of theories on that topic and that the students would study in the later chapter of the class textbook about other theories, including one that suggests homosexual behavior may be influenced by genes and the environment.
Another student in that class complained that Sheldon's comments were "offensive and unscientific" and the school probed into the matter.
"This teacher did nothing more than explain this fact," commented Hacker. "She is a dedicated and highly qualified professional who has been horribly wronged.”
While the case centers around Sheldon's constitutional rights as an educator, it is not arguing for the school to uphold the views presented by Sheldon or the textbook.
Most evangelical Christians hold the view that homosexuality is a choice rather than a genetic condition.
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lina, I wondered what you thought about what happened to the teacher in this article? Also, I responded to your post where you asked me what if what I thought about God and the Bible were wrong and I never heard a response to mine and I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it if you did, but if you chose not to that's fine.
steiner -- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!! Nothing short!
"Homo Naziism. Comply, or you will be terminated."
Sounds like an accurate conclusion.
Since igh has posted the same thing one three threads, I would direct you to the Exodus thread for my response. I have questions there for him to answer.
Please note his post has flip floped from him whooping up on sinners to claiming Jesus is whooping up on sinners.
And they bash us for being "fundamentalists"??? Homo Naziism. Comply, or you will be terminated.
Wow,
So we cannot even question this topic in a scientific format? That is really crazy.
"College officials have stripped a professor of the right to discuss competing theories and ideas in the classroom, something which represents the foundation of higher education."
Yeah... this seems to happen a lot in the scientific community...
James 4:4 "Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy."
Now here is the site i came across doing research not to long back. Here is the link that some have been asking on the movie being made on the lie of David's and Johnathan's homosexual relationship. You see there are 'church's' that believe such blasphemy that its hard to comprehend, but its all to justify themselves. Read the whole page but start where the link takes you. Its a satanic church. They preach a false Gospel and lead many to damnation. Its my 'Job' if you will my Gift of the Spirit and my Ministry given unto me by God to expose all those who lead others astray, to stand against them, and yes Debate them. And Jesus did 'whoop' on them in yahoo and many other sites!
http://www.mccchurch.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Resources&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2122#Pt3
this is the metropolitan 'church'
1Corinthians 3:16 Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!
1Co 3:17 God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.
1Co 3:18 You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.
1Co 3:19 For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";
1Co 3:20 and another scripture says, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."
We should not be shocked by this. Scripture warns us time and again we will receive persecution.
In the US (and growing secular West) this will not come in the forms of physical harm, but in loss of status, loss of income, loss of jobs.
We should prepare ourselves in prayer and fasting so we can stand firm.
The homosexual agenda has been driven by a pseudoscience that the media has used to brainwash most of society. Homosexuals cannot help themselves, we have been told, because homosexuality is genetic...
When asked whether paedophilia , bisexuality, multisexuality are genetic... or bestiality, or necromancy...many have taken this as an insult and simply not discussed it. The taboo that the breakers of taboo will not touch...
But is homosexuality genetic?
Identical twins by definition have the same DNA. Yet, it will be found that while one of the twins may be a homosexual the other is not necessarily one also. Hence, it is very unlikely that homosexuality is a result of genetics.
Can homosexuality then, simply be a result of a biochemical/brain disfunction -
Drug addictions are able to affect the way the brain functions at the basic level.
This isnt limited to drugs; it applies to anything that we become sensitized to, dependent and attached to for a long period of time...
Repeated behaviour creates a path which our brain cannot do without. A path, much like a railway track to a train, or a road to a car...where our brain has an extremely difficult time leaving it once it is built.
How else then shall we explain bisexuality, or paedophilia, or numerous other behaviours...?
The mind has been trained through repetitive and continued use of that path to the point where it cannot do anything else but travel on that road.
How else can we explain drive? the drive of a millionaire to become a billionaire, unable to stop...but to keep on piling up more and more.
Or the collector of rubbish who keeps on collecting more and more rubbish till the house and the yard and everything owned is totally filled with it, but wont stop bringing more in..
Or with anorexics...can we show that it is genetic? again, using the idea of identical twins, you will find that just because one is anorexic, the other does not necessarily follow...
And with anorexics there is a particularity that should be noted. We see that although they are in every respect truly thin...they completely see themselves as fat...undermining every reality that is flung their way
Homosexuals are the same. Although their sexual parts are there and they can bear children on their own without any problems...many have gotten themselves in a predicament where they will not admit to their true gender, or their ability to have children...
Yep...San Fran....
This teacher didn't even discuss anything Biblical! Even the secular people say it could be genes or environment! However, if you don't parrot the pro-gay movement then you are 'offensive and unscientific'.
Simply put...the data isn't there to support any conclusions on this issue so all the facts should be on the table. Again, no critical thinking.