Unfavorable feelings towards ideologies

[Rick Duncan]

I appreciate Eugene's distinction between hating the sin and hating the sinner, but it is very easy to overlook this distinction when one is creating a classroom atmosphere or even grading papers.
   
  If a professor expresses in class his disdain for "homophobes" or for "fundamentalists" or for persons who base their worldviews on "religious superstition" as opposed to secular first principles, does the professor not create a hostile and unwelcoming environment for students who belong to conservative religious faiths. Is this consistent with all the rhetoric we hear in Academe about how intellectual diversity is essential to a rich educational experience for all our students?
   
  Should  support for same-sex marriage or domestic partnerships be a condition for successful completion of a degree in social work? Should it be relevant to your grade on a paper that focuses on family policy and law?
   
  My son is a senior in high school (a national merit qualifier), and we are not even considering "secular" colleges for his education. Why go to a place where you are hated?
   
  But notice this is all the more reason why state scholarship programs should not exclude religious colleges or "pervasively sectarian" religious colleges from participating. 
   
  Separate and equal is one thing; separate and unequal is another thing indeed.
   
  Rick
   


  Rick Duncan 
Welpton Professor of Law 
University of Nebraska College of Law 
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
   
  
"It's a funny thing about us human beings: not many of us doubt God's existence and then start sinning. Most of us sin and then start doubting His existence."  --J. Budziszewski (The Revenge of Conscience)
   
  "Once again the ancient maxim is vindicated, that the perversion of the best is the worst." -- Id.


       
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