Comments on: Huntington Middle School visits UCLA’s Fowler Museum http://www.sanmarinocarealestatehomes.com/huntington-middle-school-visits-uclas-fowler-museum/ Search All San Marino CA Realtors Houses and Property for Sale in MLS Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: eric http://www.sanmarinocarealestatehomes.com/huntington-middle-school-visits-uclas-fowler-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-592 eric Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:35:35 +0000 http://www.sanmarinocarealestatehomes.com/?p=337#comment-592 According to news reports, the University of California in Los Angeles yielded to media pressure and agreed to allow a graduating student to thank Jesus in her personal statement. UCLA student Christina Popa claimed the school’s Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology was denying her freedom of speech when a faculty advisor told her that she could not mention “Jesus” in her graduation remarks. “Public universities don’t get to censor student speech just because the speech is religious. That’s called viewpoint discrimination, and it’s unconstitutional. Let’s hope that UCLA’s biology department knows more about biology than it does about constitutional law,” said Luke Goodrich, legal counsel to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. According to email exchanges that Popa posted on Facebook and that were reported by the press, UCLA Biology Professor Dr. Pamela Hurley deliberately censored Christina’s proposed speech, and emailed Christina saying: “UCLA is a public university where the doctrine of separation of church and state is observed,” and the professor proposed a censored version of Christina’s proposed speech, deleting any reference to Jesus Christ. When Christina objected, Dr. Hurley threatened, “If you prefer, Christina, I can read none of what you wrote. I am very sorry that this is a problem for you.” “The Becket Fund will defend any graduate from a public institution who wants to exercise his or her First Amendment right to engage in religious speech,” added Goodrich. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) eMail (required) (will not be published) Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail LATEST POSTS Oct 21, 10 6th Issue of the 16Rounds Newspaper Sep 23, 10 September 2010 Sep 21, 10 A Beautiful Contribution Sep 17, 10 Holiday Inn Aug 20, 10 New rack, at Garnet & Cass Aug 11, 10 With Bhakta Chris Jul 28, 10 Lucky D’s Jul 28, 10 Loving It Jul 25, 10 July 2010 Jun 24, 10 Fifth issue of the 16Rounds publication SASTRA DANA A Program for the Congregational Distribution of Srila Prabhupada's Books Iskcon's founder/acarya is His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada SPONSORS (Jul - Aug 2010) Maha Muni Prabhu $1,008.00 Esekiel Jaggernauth $400.00 Susan Jensen $350.00 Jnana Bhakti Prabhu $200.00 Advaita & Sita Thakurani $151.00 Pradyumna Prabhu $100.00 Christelle Vidal $80.00 Anonymous $80.00 Justin Connor $62.00 Vaikuntha Deva Prabhu $51.00 Randy & Kripa Mayi $51.00 Nivedan Tiwari $50.00 Radhananda Prabhu $50.00 Balai Mataji $42.00 Vamsi Prabhu & Brenda $32.00 Kanka Mataji $25.00 Kasyapa Prabhu $20.00 Rafael A. Palma $20.00 Nitin & Jayshri Patel $11.00 TOTAL $2,783.00 Featured Video Recent Comments Mahat on Holiday Inn David G. on Holiday Inn tanmoy krishna das on Vijay distributing books in San Diego Mahat on 16 Rounds To Samadhi prasenjit sarker on 16 Rounds To Samadhi Nityananda Chandra Das on How to deal with Christians Mahat on How to deal with Christians Vrindavan on How to deal with Christians Jan@VEDA on How to deal with Christians According to news reports, the University of California in Los Angeles yielded to media pressure and agreed to allow a graduating student to thank Jesus in her personal statement. UCLA student Christina Popa claimed the school’s Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology was denying her freedom of speech when a faculty advisor told her that she could not mention “Jesus” in her graduation remarks.

“Public universities don’t get to censor student speech just because the speech is religious. That’s called viewpoint discrimination, and it’s unconstitutional. Let’s hope that UCLA’s biology department knows more about biology than it does about constitutional law,” said Luke Goodrich, legal counsel to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

According to email exchanges that Popa posted on Facebook and that were reported by the press, UCLA Biology Professor Dr. Pamela Hurley deliberately censored Christina’s proposed speech, and emailed Christina saying: “UCLA is a public university where the doctrine of separation of church and state is observed,” and the professor proposed a censored version of Christina’s proposed speech, deleting any reference to Jesus Christ.

When Christina objected, Dr. Hurley threatened, “If you prefer, Christina, I can read none of what you wrote. I am very sorry that this is a problem for you.”

“The Becket Fund will defend any graduate from a public institution who wants to exercise his or her First Amendment right to engage in religious speech,” added Goodrich.

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