I don't know what "constitutional misconduct" means.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling constitutional misconduct on University of South Carolina basketball head coach Dawn Staley for her recent comments denigrating nonbelievers.
The University of South Carolina is a public research university.
In her conversation with ESPN reporter Holly Rowe courtside Sunday following her team’s victory over Oregon State, Staley said that there is something “wrong” with those who don’t believe in God: “If you don’t believe in God, something is wrong with you. Seriously!”
Staley has also continued her practice of preparing “gameday devotional” for players and sharing these chosen bible verses on her social media pages as “Head Coach of South Carolina Women’s Basketball.” This is inappropriate for a number of reasons, including the fact that her X account is directly linked to the South Carolina Women’s Basketball account.
She continues to describe each game as “Jesus versus” whoever the team’s opponent is, creating a Christian environment within the basketball program that excludes non-Christian and nonreligious players.
We live, so we are told, in a post-ideological society. We are addressed by social authority not as subjects who should do their duty, but subjects of pleasures: ‘Realize your true potential,’ ‘Be yourself,’ ‘Lead a satisfying life.’ When you put the glasses on, you see dictatorship in democracy.
I don't know what "constitutional misconduct" means.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling constitutional misconduct on University of South Carolina basketball head coach Dawn Staley for her recent comments denigrating nonbelievers.
The University of South Carolina is a public research university.
In her conversation with ESPN reporter Holly Rowe courtside Sunday following her team’s victory over Oregon State, Staley said that there is something “wrong” with those who don’t believe in God: “If you don’t believe in God, something is wrong with you. Seriously!”
Staley has also continued her practice of preparing “gameday devotional” for players and sharing these chosen bible verses on her social media pages as “Head Coach of South Carolina Women’s Basketball.” This is inappropriate for a number of reasons, including the fact that her X account is directly linked to the South Carolina Women’s Basketball account.
She continues to describe each game as “Jesus versus” whoever the team’s opponent is, creating a Christian environment within the basketball program that excludes non-Christian and nonreligious players.
If that university is funded in any way by taxes, that is against the Constitutional right to freedom of religion. She should go coach at a college funded by religious tithing.
An instructor at a secular institution of learning has no business spouting off about the supposed mental condition of atheists in their professional capacity. She has a right to her opinion, as I have a right to mine in thinking that those who believe in invisible sky fairies are mentally off-kilter, but she has no business formulating those opinions in a manner which suggest they're part of established school policy. I'd say there's something wrong in the fact that USC had apparently not taken any sort of disciplinary steps to prevent her from doing this well before it reached the level of this sort of publicity.
An instructor at a secular institution of learning has no business spouting off about the supposed mental condition of atheists in their professional capacity. She has a right to her opinion, as I have a right to mine in thinking that those who believe in invisible sky fairies are mentally off-kilter, but she has no business formulating those opinions in a manner which suggest they're part of established school policy. I'd say there's something wrong in the fact that USC had apparently not taken any sort of disciplinary steps to prevent her from doing this well before it reached the level of this sort of publicity.
Why is not believing in something that cannot be proven be seriously wrong?
We live, so we are told, in a post-ideological society. We are addressed by social authority not as subjects who should do their duty, but subjects of pleasures: ‘Realize your true potential,’ ‘Be yourself,’ ‘Lead a satisfying life.’ When you put the glasses on, you see dictatorship in democracy.
An instructor at a secular institution of learning has no business spouting off about the supposed mental condition of atheists in their professional capacity. She has a right to her opinion, as I have a right to mine in thinking that those who believe in invisible sky fairies are mentally off-kilter, but she has no business formulating those opinions in a manner which suggest they're part of established school policy. I'd say there's something wrong in the fact that USC had apparently not taken any sort of disciplinary steps to prevent her from doing this well before it reached the level of this sort of publicity.
Why is not believing in something that cannot be proven be seriously wrong?
It certainly causes less mischief than having belief in something that can't be proven.