Source: University OKs pagan festival, bans Christian event
Druids, heathens, shamans and witches welcomed at school that banned Bible
I just came across this article on reddit and I had to say something about it.
It starts out implying an inequality of religious tolerance:
Scotland’s University of Edinburgh, after proposing a ban on Bibles and denying a Christian campus group the right to hold a conference on the immorality of homosexuality, has extended the welcome mat to the school’s Pagan Society to hold its annual meeting on campus next month.
It goes on to quote John Macintyre, the presidering officer of the Pagan Federation Scotland he speaks of how the pagan festival is one of education on the pagan religious values in a tolerant atmosphere and then ends by saying, “Most people now recognize that the old stereotypes about witches and witchcraft are way off the mark and there is nothing remotely sinister about it.”
The article continues,
“Remotely sinister,” it seems, is reserved for Christians at Edinburgh.
Really? Is that what it is? The University is intentionally singling out Christians is the slant the article seems to be taking but lets look back at the article.The University did not ban the bible, as stated in the title and first few paragraphs (the only part that is most often read,) they merely removed the Gideon bible that used to be placed in each of the student’s dorm rooms so they could be more religiously sensitive. And for the same reason they removed the prayer from the graduation speech. This is not an attack on the the Christian religion, it is respecting the people of other religions, and those without a religion.
So that leaves us with the event that they were denied, the one on teaching the “immorality of homosexuality.” Yes that’s right the Christians of Edinburgh were denied their intolerant, hate mongering parade. Boo effin hoo. In fact, the University was willing to let them have it as long as they presented an alternative view, from which they took offense, and one Matthew Tindale, a Chrisian Union staffer, tried to actually equate a talk about the “dangers of homosexuality,” to a talk on racial tolerance. How twisted the minds of these people to think that talking about homosexual intolerance is the same as racial tolerance. What’s next? An event on… I can’t even think of something more absurd right now.
The bias in this article is not subtle, it is equating the University’s good judgment in preventing an event based on hate and fear mongering to that of allowing an event that speaks to family values and tolerance, the title very clearly paints a picture that a great injustice is occurring but the meat of the article, to any free-thinking individual is apparent that there is nothing to see here, move along folks
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