Persecution based on religious beliefs has become the trend in the United States, with laws such as Shepard-Byrd, numerous court cases in the past fifty years, and various state and local laws erasing Freedom of Religion, and instead mandating a specific state of beliefs of the state, similar to what Albert Herlong listed in 1963 as the goals of Communism. In Augusta, GA, a graduate student in counseling was informed she had to relinquish her religious beliefs and attend “sensitivity training” to brainwash her into the Gill Agenda's take on sexual deviancy, or face expulsion for not fitting into the Gill Agenda. She promptly filed a lawsuit.
The student asked an official at Augusta State University, where the student filing the lawsuit attended, how her Christian beliefs are less acceptable than a Muslim or Buddhist student, where the official responded, "Christians see this population as sinners." Romans 3:23 discretely states, “All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.” When I was in kindergarten at the parochial school, that verse was posted on the wall in Joan Bourne's class, and in every classroom we had in our school in learning our alphabet. It seems that professor has the attitude in Norman Greenbaum's “Spirit in the Sky” (a song that I've mentioned a few times for a blasphemous line) in that she feels she was never a sinner and has never sinned.
The school demanded she attend numerous sexual deviant-themed events in order to force her to be trained towards their viewpoint (homosexual, bisexual, “transgendered”), reading pro-sexual deviant articles in their magazines, and attending an area “homosexual pride” parade – with the likelihood she would be severely penalised if she said the truth of homosexuality and sexual deviancy by declaring homosexuality a sin (as is the case). Three verses in the Bible prove her case, as Leviticus 18:22 states, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 20:13 warns, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Deuteronomy 23:18 then exhorts to man, “You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog (male prostitute or sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.”
This is not the only one here. There have been other cases. In Missouri State University's case, a professor was put on leave when a student filed a lawsuit after he forced her to lobby on behalf of legalising adoption by homosexual couples, and she was charged with ethics violations. The school found students were bullied into a no-debate, no-discussion, the professor is the gospel (even if it was false) attitude. In Eastern Michigan University, a student was expelled for not arguing in support of sexual deviancy, and legislators wanted to question school officials for it.
The persecution of Christians in 2010 is fitting with the plans of the secular humanists of today, wanting to form a new national humanist belief system based on the Gill Agenda and the ideals of every special interest group in brainwashing people into a system of feelings over truth. Students are now striking back at schools for forcing them to believe in the humanism of school officials and the elimination of Freedom of Religion, a fundamental belief quickly being wiped out by the Obama Administration in addition to education institutions' leaders. ◙