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Title: USF "queer theory" course angers Christian organization
Post by: Butterfly on January 22, 2010, 01:19:39 PM
USF "queer theory" course angers Christian organization
By Matthew Sinn
22 January, 2010


http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123289&catid=8 (http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123289&catid=8)


Tampa, Florida - The Christian-based organization, Florida Family Association, has started an email campaign protesting a course at USF called "Queer Theory."

A flier promoting the course explains that issues discussed include "the connection between gender and sexuality" and "Is transgender the same as transsexual?"


Title: Re: USF "queer theory" course angers Christian organization
Post by: tekla on January 22, 2010, 02:15:02 PM
Wait till they check out the biology department.
Title: Re: USF "queer theory" course angers Christian organization
Post by: spacial on January 22, 2010, 02:19:17 PM
Well, if they have their way, it's another nail in the coffin of American education.

Allowing a political organisation, posing as religious to dictate suitable matters for study in a university is just oppressive ditatorship.

Presumably their next target will be decadent art!
Title: Re: USF "queer theory" course angers Christian organization
Post by: tekla on January 22, 2010, 04:40:34 PM
The target has always been science in the end, that's where the real threat is.