Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Idiots for Jesus.

Remember when college was for expanding your horizons?  Learning new things?  Challenging your preconceptions or even forcing yourself to analyze ideas strange to you that you could accept or reject on their own merits?  Yeah, that was nice.  Imagine what's going to happen when they meet - gasp! - actual gay people.
Summer reading assignment causes controversy, boycott at Duke | USA TODAY College: "Incoming freshmen at Duke University are reportedly refusing to read their summer novel, Fun Home — an LGBT, graphic novel by Alison Bechdel — due to their alleged Christian and moral beliefs. According to the Duke Chronicle, freshman Brian Grasso posted in the Class of 2019 Facebook page that he would not read the book “because of the graphic visual depictions of sexuality.” “I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it,” Grasso added. Many other students shared Grasso’s beliefs, saying that they were against reading the novel which details Bechdel’s tumultuous relationship with her father, a closeted gay man, while coming to terms with her own sexuality."

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