Is punishment fit?

[beckers]

Threatening E-mail

A New Jersey computer programmer who sent a private email describing lesbianism as a “perversion” has been formally reprimanded by the university where he works for violating the school’s discrimination policy, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports.

Jihad Daniel, a programmer at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., made his comments in response to an e-mail he received that had been sent university-wide inviting people to a film about lesbian relationships titled “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House.”

Daniel responded to the professor who sent it, saying he did not want to receive such messages about “perversions,” writing in a one-paragraph response that “the absence of God in higher education brings on confusion. That is why in these classes the Creator of the heavens and the [E]arth is never mentioned.”

The professor, Arlene Holpp Scala of the Women’s Studies department, complained that the email was threatening and went against the school’s anti-discrimination policy.

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164332,00.html

So it’s okay for this women to send out an email about her views but it’s not okay for him to reply with his???

Beckers

 

[ShroudMan]

I dont think any employee on employer time and using employer equipment has the right to give personal moral opinions on that time or equipment…UNLESS said employee is being COERCED into something he/she feels is againts their ethics.

 

[Jay74]

Threatening E-mail

A New Jersey computer programmer who sent a private email describing lesbianism as a “perversion” has been formally reprimanded by the university where he works for violating the school’s discrimination policy, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports.

Jihad Daniel, a programmer at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., made his comments in response to an e-mail he received that had been sent university-wide inviting people to a film about lesbian relationships titled “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House.”

Daniel responded to the professor who sent it, saying he did not want to receive such messages about “perversions,” writing in a one-paragraph response that “the absence of God in higher education brings on confusion. That is why in these classes the Creator of the heavens and the [E]arth is never mentioned.”

The professor, Arlene Holpp Scala of the Women’s Studies department, complained that the email was threatening and went against the school’s anti-discrimination policy.

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164332,00.html

So it’s okay for this women to send out an email about her views but it’s not okay for him to reply with his???

Beckers

What he did should be okay, but we live in a world where free speech and free religion are one way streets.

Shameful.

 

[Karin]

beckers:

So it’s okay for this women to send out an email about her views but it’s not okay for him to reply with his???

Beckers

If you read a bit more…she did not send an email regarding her views she sent an email that was inviting people to see a film about lesbian relationships (thefire.org/pdfs/c59d217a56fa7983d592a1d6bc3a0e89.pdf))
she did not state what her personal opinion was at any time.

 

[Karin]

Perhaps if he felt that these types of movies should not be shown at the university he should of written a letter with an attached petition stating his views on why.

I have to agree with ShroudMan: * “I dont think any employee on employer time and using employer equipment has the right to give personal moral opinions on that time or equipment…UNLESS said employee is being COERCED into something he/she feels is againts their ethics”*