When is enough, enough? When does a person draw the line and decide that they have had too much and must do something about it? For Gay Lesbian people, this is a fine line that is scary to cross.

While a student at Carl Sandburg College, in the Cosmetology Program, I was harassed by an instructor. This instructor chose to violate my rights to being a student by giving me evangelical Christian pamphlets about homosexuality. These pamphlets described homosexuals as deviants, abominations, child molesters, rapists, animals/monsters, and enticers. Was it this teacher’s right to give me, the student, and these materials because she saw my homosexuality as a bad thing? At first, when I approached my teacher about a question involving clients and the topic of homosexuality as it relates to women, I was warm and welcoming to her opinion as a Born-Again Christian. After the conversation I assumed the conversation was over. I was wrong!

When a teacher constantly harasses a student about their wrongly-perceived sexuality, is it considered Sexual Harassment? My school said yes! They did this because the materials I was presented accused me of being a rapist, a child molester, and also considered it religious harassment since I was Jewish; she Christian, and the pamphlets were of an evangelical Christian nature.

Now, three years later, the teacher is suing the school because after she was found guilty of violating the schools harassment policies, she had her contract for teaching not renewed. According to a blurb posted by the Rutherford Institute, she felt she had a right to free speech, especially after being approached by an adult student, but that her actions in no way could be considered sexual harassment. I have to give a deposition to both sides of the fight this coming Monday, and it still hurts me to this day what she did.

So my question to you is this: When is enough, enough? Should the teacher just give up after 3 years and go on with her life? Should the lawyers involved have the right to keep bringing up bad memories of a time that was supposed to be filled with good ones for me, the student?

When is enough, ENOUGH?

Jase ;0)

This article is in response to a recently found article on the Rutherford Institutes site while doing a Google search after being subpoenaed to do a deposition. You can find the article here: http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/legal_features.asp?article_id=78


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