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College Student Says He’s Been Suspended After He Refused Prof’s Demand to Stomp on Jesus Sign

Mar. 21, 2013 2:40pm Billy Hallowell

Ryan Rotela, a junior at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), is waging a bizarre allegation against his professor, Dr. Deandre Poole.

The student is claiming that he’s been suspended from his intercultural communications class for refusing to write “JESUS” on a sheet of paper, throw it on the floor and then stomp on it — a request that the instructor apparently made.

If you’re already scratching your head, you’re not alone. The curious claim caught the attention of WPEC-TV, a South Florida CBS affiliate.

Rotela, a devout Mormon, says he refused to participate in the purported activity and told Poole that he found the request offensive.

Ryan Rotela Claims He Was Suspended From Class for Not Stomping on Jesus Name

Photo Credit: WPEC-TV

“Anytime you stomp on something it shows that you believe that something has no value. So if you were to stomp on the word Jesus, it says that the word has no value,” Rotela told WPEC-TV.

But the situation purportedly became even more contentious a few days after the alleged paper incident occurred. After Rotela went to his professor’s supervisor to complain, he claims he was suspended from the class.

According to WPEC, here’s how the school responded to an inquiry about the situation:

“Faculty and students at academic institutions pursue knowledge and engage in open discourse. While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate.”

Watch the WPEC-TV show, below:

It’s important to note that this is an allegation and that the other side has not adequately been heard from. TheBlaze called FAU and e-mailed Poole for comment. We have not heard from either party.

(H/T: Fox News Insider)

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Zeb
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:51pm
Deandre J. Poole
Instructor

Email: dpoole3@fau.edu

PhD, Howard University

Areas of Specialization: Intercultural Communication, Leadership and Communication, Political Communication

Deandre Poole teaches courses in intercultural communication, ethnicity and communication, leadership and communication, and organizational communication. His research focuses on the role mediated messages play in shaping individual attitudes and beliefs concerning issues of justice and inequality, and examines how leaders, organizations, and other influential authorities dominate and oppress marginalized groups of people. Currently, he is authoring the book, Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Poole is actively engaged in various community service projects throughout Palm Beach County.

NO DOUBT Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical and fictitious non Hero but the ‘obomanation’

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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Thanks for the info ZEB….
  
  And please keep posting here. : )
  
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- drydino
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Poole should have to write Muhammad on a piece of paper, place it on a copy of the Koran, then stomp on it, while being video recorded for posting on YouTube to keep his job. If not, he should be fired!!!!
  
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- 1947
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:04pm
  Wow his PROF looks MUSLIM
  
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- ComradeJ
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Deandre Poole:
  
  …Dr. Poole’s research program focuses on the role mediated messages play in shaping individual attitudes and beliefs concerning issues of justice and inequality, and examines how leaders, organizations and other influential authorities dominate and oppress marginalized groups of people…
  
  - Palm Beach County Dem Vice Chair
  - precinct captain for Precinct 7021 in West Palm Beach
  - club officer for the Together We Stand Democratic Club
  - member of the West Palm Beach Democratic Club
  (http://www.pbcdemocraticparty.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1661&Itemid=765)
  
  Interestingly he’s also a member of the usher board of Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God in Christ. If the allegations are true, it would seem from the statement of faith they might want to reconsider his membership.
  http://lighthousewccogic.com/statementoffaith.html
  
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- Ray2447
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:23pm
  Godless Marxism is the opiate of leftist professors who spew their Marxist propaganda from taxpayer funded podiums in classrooms as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/44btbq8
  
  When all you have is a political ideology as hopelessly anti-God as Marxism, the false hope that human intellects have the capacity to solve all the world’s problems is all you have left to cling to.
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:14pm
  In other words, Poole is a jihadist, and he is poisoning the minds of our kids. The guy should be lynched.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:56pm
  Write POOLE on a sheit.of paper
  place on floor
  Crapp on it.
  What would you get ?
  
  Thats right a Cesspoole.
  Go to the (head) of the class.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:31pm
  how about the teacher does some open discourse with a Koran……then we can have a discussion
  
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- stotlaat
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:38pm
  Sounds like it’s an attention-getting stunt prior to the release of his masterpiece about the master piece. Premarketing.
  
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- MartyTr
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:41pm
  Call Gov. Rick Scott(R), 1-850-488-7146 or Wash. 1-202-624-5885 or Sen. Rubio(R) Wash. 1-202-224-3041 or Fl. 1-407-254-2573.
  
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- scarydave
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:07am
  Zeb, is Deandre J. Poole a MALE?
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:31am
  Scary…
  And I thought he was just a POS
  
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- chingachgook
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:55am
  This is simple religious persecution. obama is trying to put the Catholic Church in the trick bag using obama care and the abortion mandates to attack the Catholic Church. I would point out that it may be the Catholic Church now, but what religion will be next. The Catholic Church has shut down some of their adoption agencies where the states have mandated things that they can not accept. Again it is all about religious persecution. All part of Marxist goals. They must destroy religion where ever they can. islam is aliened with the left for now and they will fight it out eventually if they defeat us.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:36am
  If this is true take the “F” and sue him for religious intolerance. Put these rectums in the news on daily basis. Make him do the same thing with”Muhammad.”
  
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- Eternal
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:39am
  Home address?
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:06am
  Another psychosocialist. Thanks for the info. Hope we hear from other students to corroborate his story.
  
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- way2insane
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:43am
  My initial reaction to hearing about this wasn’t pleasant. Was going to call the College and give them an earful. But as I am doing my own research into this, I’m starting to wonder if there is not more to the story.
  Starting to look like the MSM is at it again, just delivering sensationalism over getting to the real story.
  Which isn’t “studend suspended for not jesus stomping” but rather “why is it even part of the curriculum?”
  The University commented that the Professor was doing an exercise from the textbook.
  
  “An FAU official defended the decision, telling WPEC that the Jesus-stomping was part of a classroom exercise from a textbook: “Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition,” according to the Daily Caller.”
  http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/03/21/fau-student-suspended-for-not-stomping-on-jesus-56887
  
  So I’m looking into to see if the “exercise” was some form of comparative rationale or what not.
  
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- txgrrl
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:09am
  How about the results on ratemyprofessors.com?
  http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=795201
  
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- VaARNG_Guardsman
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:25am
  This young man has already stomped on Jesus by denying his co-equality, preexistence, and the inner life of Father, Son, and Spirit.
  
  This young man’s “Church,” suggests that Christ was created and a child of God, just like Satan.
  
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- galensdad
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:12pm
  Would the Professor have had the cojones to ask members of his class to throw the Koran to the floor and stomp on it? Very doubtful!
  
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- Marj0120
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:59pm
  This is a cut and paste of what I wrote him based on the info provided in the article above.
  
  Dear Pro. Poole,
  
  I’m positive that you have received your fair share of hate mail over this incident. Hate accomplishes nothing that is good. Not according to Jesus, Mohammed or Buddha anyway.
  
  I am curious however, if your motive was to teach students about reactions to religious principle or doctrine, there should in my humble uneducated opinion been “no wrong answer”.
  
  Learning instead would have occurred had you examined the thinking of those who quickly stomped the name, those who hesitated before doing so and the one who refused to do so. Just think of the wonderful discussions that could have followed.
  
  What did you intend to teach? In my again humble, uneducated opinion, all that was learned that day was that following your core beliefs and refusing to do something intrinsically wrong to you, results in unbending judgment and punishment. There are those who refuse military service based on their religious beliefs, many ran to Canada and others served honorably without using a weapon.
  
  As a Christian first and an American second, I would have refused to stomp on any religious symbol, regardless of the religion it symbolized. Our constitution wisely instructs us to allow freedom of religious expression, not specifying any particular religion.
  
  Continued in next post.
  
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- Marj0120
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Dear Pro. Poole,
  
  I’m positive that you have received your fair share of hate mail over this incident. Hate accomplishes nothing that is good. Not according to Jesus, Mohammed or Buddha anyway.
  
  I am curious however, if your motive was to teach students about reactions to religious principle or doctrine, there should in my humble uneducated opinion been “no wrong answer”.
  
  Learning instead would have occurred had you examined the thinking of those who quickly stomped the name, those who hesitated before doing so and the one who refused to do so. Just think of the wonderful discussions that could have followed.
  
  What did you intend to teach? In my again humble, uneducated opinion, all that was learned that day was that following your core beliefs and refusing to do something intrinsically wrong to you, results in unbending judgment and punishment. There are those who refuse military service based on their religious beliefs, many ran to Canada and others served honorably without using a weapon.
  
  As a Christian first and an American second, I would have refused to stomp on any religious symbol, regardless of the religion it symbolized. Our constitution wisely instructs us to allow freedom of religious expression, not specifying any particular religion.
  
  I don’t expect that you will respond to my email, but felt I wanted to let you know my thoughts on the off chance that you would share yours and clear up my confusion.
  
  Marjorie
  
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- profwatson
  Posted on March 27, 2013 at 10:32am
  One student, a devout Mormon, was so so disturbed by the exercise that he complained to school officials, saying Poole had offended his religious convictions. The school responded by suspending the student from the class.
  
  While the incident has made the news, the media has failed to report a key component of Poole’s resume: He is vice-chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party. His recent actions add fire to an already-disturbing pattern of hate coming out of the local party.
  
  Mark Siegel, the former chairman of the county Democratic Party, was forced to resign in September under a barrage of criticism over an anti-Christian tirade at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
  
  Siegel, who is Jewish, told an interviewer at the convention that pro-Israel Christians want to see Jews “slaughtered.”
  
  “Oh no, the Christians just want us to be there so we can all be slaughtered and converted and bring on the second coming of Jesus Christ,” he said at the time.
  
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- joem789
  Posted on April 3, 2013 at 4:04am
  oh. So you guys are spreading a rumor since you don’t have a friggin clue from the other side? it is entirely possible that the professor asked him to step on a nasty Jesus Fly that was sitting on the floor. IT WAS A BUG!! Well…it could be!
  
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762x51
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:45pm
Totalitarianism – The names change but the game remains the same.

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- RetiredUSMC
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:21pm
  That kid would have been gutted, hung, then burned on a pole if he had stomped on the Koran. Then his family would follow.
  USA is going to hell being led by the wussies driving the ship./…grow a pair. Kid shoulda slapped the fat professor across his liver lips instead..
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Both Professor and Principal
  
  ~> would be in hiding.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Doesn’t matter if you are christian or not, how do these pukes get away with this and are not removed from teaching!?
  
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- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:55pm
  I do hope if this is indeed true, that the student go directly to a constitutional LAWYER. However, after this, I would then ask for all my money back and then enroll in another more conservative college.
  
  Let the liberals hang with themselves. But, at the same time, I AM ALL FOR FIGHTING THEM LEGALLY, TOOTH AND NAIL – all the way to the Supreme Court, if you have to.
  
  When I was in college, my Prof tried to tell us that gays are BORN THAT WAY with a certain type of gene AND during a class discussion, I first asked, if it was ok if I mentioned that I was a person of faith. She agreed. I then told her then that if this is so, then the Bible would be untrue and it is like calling God a liar when he gives scripture after scripture NOT to engage in any homosexual activities. It was a very lively discussion, but there was no concrete answer. AND, no one persecuted me or anyone else. There were several gays in my class and we had studied together. I had no problem with this as long as they didn’t hit on me. THEY DID NOT.
  
  There is no civility or open-mindness anymore. It’s just the left forcing you to accept their ideas. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP and it is up to you, the American people TO PUSH BACK, AND PUSH BACK HARD (without violence). No nasty words, JUST FACTS.
  
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Uechi
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:43pm
How about cutting a piece of paper into an L and writing bang on it. Then he could be accused of terroristic threats with a piece of paper that is suppose to be a gun.Is it any wonder why students coming out of college can’t find jobs or their ass with both hands with Marxist Profs?

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- carbonyes
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:10pm
  Definitely do not have to wonder, do we! If we don’t take the colleges and universities back, it will be difficult to take our schools back as the libfard professors are brain washing most students who haven’t been grounded before they got to college, and colleges of teaching are specifically set up to liberally indoctrinate future teachers. In addition text books have been rewritten to rewrite (fabricating)history. Definitely have a gargantuan task to take this country back. Can be done; not sitting on our cans though. May have to get a little physical too. Also, definitely don’t go along with any gun controls whatsoever. May have to use them – unfortunately probably sooner than later.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:00pm
  Add your comments
  
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Arshloch
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:43pm
If Rotels believes the quoted adage of what is worthless, I would have suspended him for not ‘stomping’ on the ‘perfesser’.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:38pm
What if Ryan had said, “I will stomp on the name of Jesus, only if I can also stomp on the name of Muhammad.”?
Here’s a photo of Deandre J. Poole. My guess is he’s Muslim.
http://www.fau.edu/scms/poole.php

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Perfect!
  
  How about, I’ll stomp on a picture of Bush if I can stomp on a picture of Obama? ant to bet that would fly?
  
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- Lothmar
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:19pm
  762 – not quite the same analogy, I mean afterall who really believes in either of those two – it’s a lose nothing to gain something proposition. Granted if you’re a non believer the same could be said of the Jesus/mohammed argument as well but in this situation if you’re a believer it’s probably mostly negative. Not only is evil tricking you into commiting an act against good so that you are thus allowed to commit that act against evil it doesn’t necessarily balance out at least to me though some would say karmically it should but I think Evil comes out ahead and you neutral at best in this comparison. That and you’re now a racist and will likely be put in jail on hate crimes after performing such an action even if you negotiated such terms and it was a class project.
  
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- VintageAmerican
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:51pm
  More on Dr. Deandre Poole:
  Instructor of Communication Studies – Florida Atlantic University ; http://votesmart.org/about/advisors
  another fine feathered friend of the left and RINOs like McCain.
  
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- Yuuperguy
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:37pm
  And what makes you think he’s Muslim? Please enlighten us.
  
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- MistyMountainGranny
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:44pm
  @ Leadnotfollow, I noticed one of his “specialties” is political communication… How is he teaching political communication when he obviously has failed himself. Communication does not mean do as I say or you will be punished. Ummm that’s oppression not communication. These Marxist professors have got to go. I say they go to China since they are so Anti-American. So no Christianity in schools unless it is to defile it? Progressives really love to pick and choose don’t they?
  
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- Simonne
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:10am
  We know that the professor wouldn’t have gone along with that.
  
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- 1peachy_mama
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:04am
  Since it says “Ph.D”, I am guessing he hasn’t had a real thought or a real life experience. And if “the book” says it, than that is what they “have” to teach (sarcasm on the last part)…. It’s a shame that college students are expected to check their logic and values at the door just because those “teaching” them did so when they took their respective jobs.
  
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NotaDemoCratNut
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:34pm
Since FAU refuses to discuss their extremist left wing teaching policies, we believe they should be avoided as a school choice by all forward thinking Floridians. Time to stop their access to State and other publicly supported funding without a full audit of all programs, and a complete review of all instructor credentials. Critical thinking and course content, must not be allowed to be promoted by left wing instructors, whose grand purpose in life, is to miseducate, politicize, and convert all students in their keeping, to a left wing liberal agenda.

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Old Truckers
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:29pm
Just because someone asks you to do something does not mean you have to do it.

I would have written the professor’s name on the paper, then stomped on it.

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- Mapache
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:45pm
  The student was exercising his academic freedom NOT to step on the paper. I thought academia was a place where freedom of thought was encouraged. I think THAT teacher, if the allegation is true, needs some sensitivity training. Another option would be for her to tell a Muslim student to stop on a paper with the name Mohammed or Allah on it. That should just about do it…..tick, tick, tick….that teacher is gone.
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Bring a roll of TP to class with the Prof’s name on it. Or better yet just hang it in the mens room next to his office.
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:13pm
  MAPACHE Teacher is a male probably of the blk muszzy variety…”…but you are right, he is still a c,,t.
  
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- plmbcrzy
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:31pm
  My thoughts exactly
  
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lincolnhenry1860
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:24pm
I would write the professor’s name on a piece of paper and crumple it up, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, spit on it and shove it up his a$$ – then ask him how that intercultural communication makes him feel.

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- Old Truckers
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:34pm
  You beat me to it by a few minutes. Anyway, your comment was more ‘colourful’ than mine.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:22pm
I got kicked out of one of those classes once. The professor had set up a play about the Bible and I was picked to play Adam. When the snake gave Eve the apple she handed it to me. I was supposed to take a bite from it. I refused and the professor demanded I take a bite. He said if I didn’t participate and follow the script I would be tossed from class.This went on for a while and I finally pointed to a sign he had put up on the wall, “No food allowed in this room. If you get caught eating anything you will be banned from this class”. The class broke out in laughter and he turned red. I said, “You don’t like Monks I take it. Either way I’m gone right? Progressives always turn to SEPARATION and DIVISION for answers to problems.

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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:33pm
  Why wouldn’t you take a bite from the apple?
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:48pm
  GOOD FOR YOU. People who ask why you didn’t are to be pitied. FOR THEM : NOW HEAR THIS:
  The DEVIL (you know him, right?) urged Eve to “take a bite” to prove that she was willing to DEFY GOD. God gave EVE life, a husband, a beautiful life and all GOD asked was that Eve would not Eat from that TREE… But she did. WHY should anyone even PRETEND TO DEFY GOD. FOR WHAT purpose? You little people who don’t know GOD or don’t want to know GOD are in for such a bruisin’ .. YOU need to ask yourself: WHY is it so important to DEFY GOD….???? What’s your payoff? It’s HELL …but why don’t YOU know that? EVEN if it’s symbolic, it’s still an obnoxious action…trying to make someone DO something against their will that is important to them. GROW UP you pathetic sad sack. I note that you post on every Thread…always ready to KNOCK GOD. Wouldn’t wanna be you, kid.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:53pm
  @SANDDEBRISMIND
  
  Didn’t get it ?
  
  Sign said: “No food allowed in this room.
  >~~~~~~>If you get caught eating anything you will be banned from this class”. ..”
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  “Why wouldn’t you take a bite from the apple?”
  
  You’re smarter than that JZS. I know you can read. You must just want a reply from me.
  
  Now why is that JZS… my ole sparing buddy?
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Hello MONK,
  
  You weren’t kicked out out of class for not following professor’s request.
  
  ;^>Must have been your compliance with the sign on the wall.
  
  P.S. Wango seeking therapy
  
  That violated the whole liberal arts
  
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- stumpy68
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:13pm
  @The-Monk
  
  Doesn’t sparing partner imply that both parties are armed?
  I believe you are sparing with a unarmed opponent. LOL
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Hey Monk. Who is this JZS person? Anyway, you refused to eat the apple because that would be committing the original sin? It wasn’t original anymore, Monk, Adam already did it. I don’t think it counts the second time.
  
  Oh well, never mind. I was in that same kind of play though in earlier years. I not only bit into the apple of knowledge, I ate the entire thing. Then went necking with the girl who played Eve after school. I just didn’t think the story was literal. Sounded more symbolic to me. And besides, I like apples.
  
  Anyway, I got an “A” in that class.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:35pm
  @PATTY HENRY
  
  “You little people who don’t know GOD or don’t want to know GOD are in for such a bruisin’ .. ”
  
  The intellect of a child ladies and gentlemen. Then again, the Bible does call its followers to be like children……so there you have it.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Hi Stumpy68,
  
  I got that right. LOL
  
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- Locked
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Hahaha! Great story, Monk!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  
  Now now JZS… I’m aware of your “tells” and your comments with SpeckChaser the other day.
  
  Remember admitting to SpeckChaser who you really are? I do. LOL
  
  OK… here it is Send The JZS; Whenever we got into a debate the professor would lose and lose badly. The class would laugh at him which p i s s ed him off to no end. So he came up with that play and picked me as Adam just so I would take a bite out of the apple in class thus violating his class policy. I refused and that got him even more Tee’d off. The class laughed so hard that he turned red in the face. He’s just a troll like you; unable to debate, telling lies and contradictory ideas.
  
  You know…. CAEROGAP !!! LOL
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:54pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  “Then went necking with the girl who played Eve after school.”
  
  So… are you a guy or a gal? I mean, a guy with a “Julia” avatar would be a bit strange. LOL
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:46pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  
  No more comments from the troll peanut gallery? Cat got your tongue?
  
  Maybe you should contact Wango to help you out.
  
  At least he has “some” brain cells left.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:30pm
  Hey Monk. No, the cat didn’t get my tongue. There’s this reality thing I was having to deal with. My mother made me clean out my basement room. AND take out the trash if you can believe it. I don’t even see why that should be my job.
  
  Anyway, so that was Speck? I’d forgotten who that was. However, having seen all those Superman movies I should have known better.
  
  In any case when I asked you about the apple I was doing something totally out of character. I was jerking your chain for entertainment, like you did with that teacher. I guess we’re more similar than I thought. :)
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Oh, cut it out you two; I could cut the sexual tension with a knife.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:10pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  “I was jerking your chain for entertainment, like you did with that teacher. I guess we’re more similar than I thought”
  
  Nope, I never wanted to be in that class. Some progressive friends i was debating demanded that I attend that class based on their trying to have that professor refute my comments. The professor got hem to get me into that class. I would never go to such a class all on my own. It wasn’t fun, it was sad. I won and he lost and the other (younger) students got a good laugh at it. We are the same in one respect but different in others. Not this respect however.
  
  Good luck cleaning up your basement abode. Take the trash out like a good little… Oh, you didn’t say…. boy or girl. Which are you? Doesn’t matter I guess to you progressives. One hole is the same as any other hole… right? If it feels good just do it?
  
  When you read CAEROGAP you will “understand”. And you will read CAEROGAP when I post it. All you trolls will. LOL
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:03pm
  Hey Monk. As far as my gender, I never give out personal information. I don’t want the government to track me down and throw me into a FEMA concentration camp. Nor have I ever said if I’m an atheist, agnostic or religious, although people tend to make assumptions based on my posts. Nor have I ever stated here my own personal view of the morality of abortion (as opposed to the legality).
  
  Anyway, you had a “professor” (a term usually reserved for university teachers) who was having students reenact the Garden of Eden? Was it an acting class or something? And there was a sign on the wall that said you’ll get kicked out of the class for eating? It sounds more like a preschool Bible class than anything else to me. I don’t know what to think about the “kicked out of class thing” if it was a public school of any kind, or a university class. That doesn’t compute from anything in my experience. And your liberal friends wanted you to attend? Why? To expose you to religion? Durn liberals! They always want people to attend religious stuff, and tell their professor to convince a kid to attend. I’ve never heard of that, but maybe.
  
  Look Monk, you’re okay, but your story doesn’t make sense with details you’ve given, and actually the more details you give, the less sense it makes. You’re story doesn’t add up.
  
  You know what though? I don’t care. Doesn’t mean a thing. I still think you’re okay.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:42pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  
  It doesn’t ad up because you never learned math.
  
  Learn some math and then get back yo me. : )
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:03pm
  Meteors! Sandra Fluke wannabe!!!!
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:30pm
  Monk, I may not be too good at math, but I know a good joke when I hear one:
  
  - Physicists defer only to mathematicians, mathematicians defer only to God.
  
  - A topologist is a person who doesn’t know the difference between a coffee cup and a doughnut.
  
  - Math is the language God used to write the universe.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:42pm
  Hi Send The JZS,
  
  You can still contact me personally…. if you dare to.
  Yahoo e-mail at yoursenseiyoursensei dot com.
  
  Care to make direct contact? Or are you scared shitless?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:47pm
  Uh, sure Monk. Thanks. Please don’t be offended by the fact that I have a long list of people like you, many of whom you’d recognize by their usernames. It would help if you supplied your curriculum vitae, but for now I can only say I’ll get back to you in the future.
  
  In the meantime, keep up your search! There are opportunities aplenty out there!
  
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- nickg2003
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:10am
  I will use monk short for monkey…i have heard your story before. At least be real, by the way you did have that option to refuse.
  
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Bamagal0007
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:19pm
These b’tards are teaching your children.

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:47pm
  Not my children.
  
  Why would ANYONE pay people like this to poison their childrens minds?
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:42pm
  Because it’s easier than trying to raise a child properly. Also, we’ve been conditioned to expect that some things should just be left to the experts. What we’ve done to the current generation through “education” is abominable. Pick a major city and see what their graduation rates are. I know one HS in Pasadena where the grad rate is less than 50%.
  
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Bamagal0007
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:17pm
Deandre J. Poole
Instructor

Email: dpoole3@fau.edu

PhD, Howard University

Areas of Specialization: Intercultural Communication, Leadership and Communication, Political Communication

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:40pm
  Photo of Deandre J. Poole.
  http://www.fau.edu/scms/poole.php
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:04pm
  Leadnotfollow: Thanks for the link. All we need to know is right there. I was going to say that this kind of non-sense is born from cultural relativism. Add to that some racialism and bingo: Make whitey stomp on Jesus. Thanks again.
  
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- rjtaurus605
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:04pm
  “What we have here is a failure to communicate….”
  
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Walkabout
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:10pm
The student could be making the whole thing up out of whole cloth.

Need tape or a corroborating witness or it didn’t happen. Not that you can prove. Then again mind scans are coming along.

If a prof asks you to do something like this, demur, leave, wire up, come back, meet with the prof & say you are thinking about it, then take tape to the media, school administration and lawyer & nail his rotten @$$ to the wall.

Reminds me of the university prof that demanded BJs from women with low grades to get them changed to an A. Different Demand same MO.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:09pm
In the name of ‘tolerance’…let’s write…

atheists…
liberals…
anti-semites…
progressives…
communism…
homosexuality…
islam…

on a sheet of paper, throw it on the floor and then stomp on it…

(feel free to add to the list)…

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- ihasa
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:19pm
  Yeah, they’d be so so offended and hurt! By the way, feel free to write my name on a sheet of toilet paper and use it for it’s intended purpose. Perhaps you have already done so! I’m not so pathetically thin skinned that I would get upset by such a meaningless gesture.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:20pm
  The Koran!!!
  
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- Sharon Rose
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:43pm
  trolls
  
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DZ-015
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:06pm
He should have written the professor’s name on the paper and stomped it,

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- Silvertruth
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:16pm
  No, that would have been considered an ‘assault’ on the professor and could be interpreted as a threat.
  
  Christ is ‘dead’ for many in the world and some argue he never existed. To a Christian though, he is living and their savior. To ask a Christian to do something like this is horrendous. It is very insulting and had this person been my ‘professor’ I would have asked him clearly what he is attempting to ‘teach’ and offered some other in-offensive method to get to the same thing.
  
  Teachers cannot teach students that do not respect them. Students will not respect a teacher that does not respect them as well. Therefore, Teachers must respect their students in order to teach effectively.
  
  This ‘teacher’ failed to give proper respect and is not worthy of the title of teacher.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:17pm
  Probably still would have been suspended.
  
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- zapparules
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:19pm
  Maybe he did.
  Since very little is know about the details of this story…
  Story should have led (instead of ended) with: “It’s important to note that this is an allegation and that the other side has not adequately been heard from. TheBlaze called FAU and e-mailed Poole for comment. We have not heard from either party.”
  Or better yet… How about waiting until your staff has greater detail on the entire story BEFORE bringing to print.
  
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- zapparules
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:29pm
  Muhammad is ‘dead’ for many in the world and some argue he never existed. To a Muslim though, he is living and their savior. To ask a Muslim to do something like this is horrendous. It is very insulting and had this person been my ‘professor’ I would have asked him clearly what he is attempting to ‘teach’ and offered some other in-offensive method to get to the same thing.
  
  just saying
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:27pm
  He should have put Affirmative Action on it!
  
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normalmom
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:02pm
I wish this was surprising. There is no reason what so ever for a teacher of any kind to tell someone to write out a name and then tell the students to stomp on it. Immature of the teacher. It is rude and disrespectful no matter who’s name it is.

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SREGN
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:01pm
“Deandre Poole teaches courses in intercultural communication, ethnicity and communication, leadership and communication, and organizational communication. His research focuses on the role mediated messages play in shaping individual attitudes and beliefs concerning issues of justice and inequality, and examines how leaders, organizations, and other influential authorities dominate and oppress marginalized groups of people. Currently, he is authoring the book, Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Poole is actively engaged in various community service projects throughout Palm Beach County.”

Demographic – Non-Caucasian Male Obama Voter

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- TimPatriot
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:05pm
  My oh my….what a surprise.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:16pm
  Organizational Communication
  
  HMMMMMMM Where have we heard that moniker before??
  
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- Marj0120
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:34pm
  Had this exercise been to examine the reactions of the students there would not been a punishment for refusal but a discussion of the many different reactions seen in the class room to the request. That would have been a learning experiance. BUT, this was not about learning it was about desecrating the name of the Greatest spiritual leader in the world who we Christians know to be the Son of our God. I feel incredibly sad and bad for the students so lacking in moral character that they did not refuse to do this. I would not stomp on the name Mohammed or Buddha either but that’s out of respect for another’s right to believe as they wish. Isn’t that what America believes in, that is the freedom of religious expression? Sorry atheist, I didn’t mean you leave you out but your religion doesn’t offer anything to stomp, love or hate and you can’t stomp on nothing, there is no such thing as empty space on this planet.
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:00pm
I wonder how that professor would take to someone stomping on that sheet if “Mohammed” was written on it? Would that be okay too?

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:06pm
  No no MORETEA…”Obama” written on it. Or “Marx”. That would hit home for the “professor” a lot harder.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:06pm
  Oh,More, don’t be prejudiced…..
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:59pm
They’re trying to brush the whole incident under the rug. This professor and administrator must be held accountable for their actions/inactions, and the boy, having been suspended*, should seek counsel from a good civil rights attorney.

* He took no offensive action, did not disrupt the class, nor was he disrespectful. To the contrary…

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Watcher1952
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:59pm
If this indeed happened then administrative action needs to be taken up with the instructor and she needs to be suspended…….and NOAH I agree with you …..

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Soulphoenix
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:59pm
Obeying idiotic commands from a college professor is NOT “pursuing knowledge and engaging in open discourse.” It is kow-towing to crass, boneheaded indoctrination.

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TimPatriot
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:58pm
Obama has emboldened the godless, the entitlement crowd, the power hungry progressives, the social justice crowd, and of course the communists.

He is quite a leader.

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Noah Noel
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:52pm
Ask the teacher to first make a sign with Mohammed’s name on it, then stomp on it while you are filming her. Fat chance she agrees!

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- RaydocX
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Or Obama. Or Sebelius. Or Pelosi…
  Funny ‘open dialogue’ only applies so long as those of conservative leaning listen silently to the mindless babble of the Left… the moment you argue or even make your counterpoint, you are shouted down, called names, and excluded….
  
  Ah yes, the ‘inclusive’ attitude of the Left… so different from the spirited but accepting differences in viewpoints here when you talk about topics that we have differing opinions on.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:51pm
Pardon us President Limbaugh, we stomped on the “chop and screw” marketing theme? Americans invest for the long term, and young kids are not going to worship life styles that kill them after they think about it?

There’s a difference between buzz and buzz kill, and it takes a dirty old man handing out candy at a university, to know the difference?

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- Watcher1952
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:58pm
  What on earth are you talking about….sounds like your buzz has gone way to far…..you don’t make sense
  
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- Crosswalk777
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:10pm
  I’m with Watcher. What have you been smokin? Me thinks your brains are scrambled!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:16pm
  Dude, I think you took a wrong turn and ended up in the wrong story.
  
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mcsledge
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:50pm
I am a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormon) and I to would have refused.

Unfortunately, there are many self-proclaimed Christians that would not think twice about it before doing it. Worse yet, there are those who proclaim to be Christians that openly mock Christ by taking positions in direct opposition to Christ’s teachings.

It’s one thing to error in obeying God’s commandments. We all fall short. However, it is quite another to dismiss God’s commandment and take an opposing view/position.

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:32pm
  “openly mock Christ by taking positions in direct opposition to Christ’s teachings.”
  __________________________________________________________
  
  You must be referring to the same Liberal Christians, that don’t have a problem with abortion.
  
  Here’s a clue, Their “false Christians” and Christ will tell them in that day
  , to depart from me for I never knew you.
  
  Although ….Do you feel that you’re the best qalified to point that out ?
  
  Being Mormons felt that the word of God was so incomplete ,
  
  They felt the need to ADD to it.
  
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- Crosswalk777
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:42pm
  I am NOT (capped just so it is noticable) a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormon) and I to would have refused. And I agree with you, maybe.
  
  The thing is, I’m not so sure the claim to be a Christian is legit if a person cn do that. How can you say Jesus is Lord or even that you are following him, if you oppose him on issues. He’ll judge in the end, but it sure doesn’t line up as far as I’m concerned.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:52pm
  @HOOT OWL
  
  We believe all God has revealed, all He does reveal, and believe that He will reveal more…you believe (apparently), that God has said all He has to say.
  
  We believe, as Amos 3:7 says: Surely The Lord God will do nothing, except He reveal with His secrets through prophets.”
  
  He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow…He has always used prophets, and He always will.
  
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- kd7htm
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Do a little more research on Mormons first.
  
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- mcsledge
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:51pm
  kd7htm –
  
  If your suggestion is to read the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as written by those who lived it, please do so.
  
  If you are suggesting one to read the words of The Book of Mormon and take the challenge extended by a Prophet of God to prove whether The Book of Mormon is the word of God, please do so.
  
  If you are suggesting attending church meetings to witness the reverence held for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to witness the use of God’s authority (i.e., Priesthood) given to man to officiate His Church and perform saving ordinances, please do so.
  
  If you are suggesting the investigation of writings by those who oppose The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I would pose this question……If I want to know about Catholicism, should I go to a Protestant or if I want to know about Buddism, should I go to a Muslim? No. If I want to know about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I would go to their website (lds.org) or have conversations with their missionaries or attend their meeting houses.
  
  God gave man intelligence and expects him to use it in this life. God is also alive and reveals truth. Revelation exists and God will give it to any man or woman who seeks it. The Bible makes this point abundantly clear.
  
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- Marj0120
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:17pm
  Not sure what message you’re trying to send, I am not a Morman, I do consider myself a Christian and there is no man, woman or world leader who could make me stomp a paper with the name of Jesus written on it. To imply that because you are a Morman makes you less likely, well Harry Reid identifies himself as a Morman, anything else needed to be said? We are all Christians if we follow Christ, denomination is just the means in which we follow/study the teachings of Christ. The commitment we each make to those teachings, that’s a matter for God to judge, not you or I.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:47pm
“Faculty and students at academic institutions pursue knowledge and engage in open discourse. While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate.”

If you believe that load of horse dookie, then I have some land in that very said state to sell you.. prime for building houses. … and a bridge in Queer Ville California to sell as well.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:55pm
  If the school is making an honest statement, then how does it explain the suspension? That was a free and open response to their insensitive act. When the student engaged, he was suspended.
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:58pm
  ‘If you believe that load of horse dookie’
  
  Exactly…!!
  
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