In my last post I recounted the horrific story of a 14 year-old Hamilton County, FL boy who was beaten up on a school bus because he was a Trump supporter.
Oberlin College continues to play the victim card. After the massive $11 million compensatory and $33 million punitive damage verdicts (later reduced to $25 million under Ohio tort reform caps) against it for defaming Gibson’s Bakery and its owners, Oberlin College should have looked at its own conduct in nearly destroying a 135-year-old family business. One would think a unanimous verdict and a large punitive damage award would cause some reflection on the college’s part in the hopes of rectifying clearly immoral and illegal conduct.
One would be wrong, of course. From the moment the initial verdict was handed down by the jury, Oberlin College has attempted to portray itself as the victim. The college says that it was held liable for the speech of its students.
William Jacobson, who writes for Legal Insurrection, represented the only national media outlet to be present throughout the trial. The day the verdict was handed down he predicted that the college would not take responsibility and he was right.
Can you be punished by the government for your religious views? According to the 1st Amendment the answer to that question should be a resounding “No!” However, more and more leftist politicians, bureaucrats and their allies are pushing to do just that.
Gibson’s Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, is a family business which started in 1885. It sells lots of different baked goods along with wine and other foods.
What will be the next move by Democrats to denigrate and diminish private school education, particularly religious schools, both Catholic and Jewish?
Judge Kavanaugh’s high school Georgetown Prep was defamed and slandered during the Judge’s confirmation process. Based on the hearings one would believe that all that ever went on there was drunkenness, orgies, and a lack of respect for people in general and women in particular. The MSM tried to paint the school as indifferent to the activities of its students. While the main purpose was defame Brett Kavanaugh, if a side effect was the diminishing the education provided there, that was fine with the Democrats. ...