Anti Gay Marriage Professor to Teach Human Rights Course at NYU
SHE'S tired of the 'bullying' and 'torrent of abuse' she has received for her views on homosexuality. She questions why her detractors have chosen to attack her personally and jeopardise her job, instead of focusing their attack on her views. And she asks if people can appreciate the cost she has paid for holding on to her convictions and principles.
Dr Thio Li-ann expressed these views in an 18-point memo she sent to the dean of the New York University (NYU) law school and some faculty members, a copy of which has been posted on a US legal blog.
The New Paper reported last week that Dr Thio, a law lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has been criticised by some of NYU's students, faculty and alumni.
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posted by Mark & Scott at
7/21/2009 06:14:00 AM
1 Comments:
I am as big a Gay Rights advocate as anyone else here, but I also believe in Free Speech (something Singapore hasn't grasped yet). But I also believe NYU has an obligation to provide full disclosure to anyone wanting to take her class. If people still want to pay money to be taught "human rights" by a bigot (is that not THE definition of oxymoron?), then that should be their prerogative. I think her class numbers will suffer so badly that NYU will have to let her go for that reason only and not for her views (to escape any legal issues). The last thing we need is the ACLU feeling obligated to defend a vile homophobe.
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