An Arkansas history teacher violated all the educational standards when he forced his students to watch Mel Gibson’s 2004 “gorno masterpiece,” The Passion of the Christ. He has been suspended as a result.
According to regional CBS-affiliate THV11, Greg Hendrix, who teaches the class “History Since 1890,” made his students at Wilbur D. Mills High School watch the film before taking a quiz over its material, because instead of being tortured and crucified during the First Century C.E. (which in and of itself is of dubious authenticity), Jesus Christ was actually tortured and crucified after he helped create the airplane, ended the Great Depression, and landed on the moon.
Students and parents are rightfully upset over the screening of Mel Gibson’s R-rated antisemitic torture-fest. Kristina Coffman, a student in Mr. Hendrix’s “History Since 1890” class, walked out the classroom just as the film began, along with five other students. She said of the incident:
“He shouldn’t have done it because there are a lot of students that have different religions. It just didn’t feel right.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is currently investigating and is considering filing an ethics complaint with the state.
The ACLU also received a recording by one of Mr. Hendrix’s students that features him ranting about liberals and Democrats and political correctness in class, because Mr. Hendrix is apparently Todd Starnes in disguise. After he was barred from showing the second half of Mel Gibson’s sadistic crapfest, Mr. Hendrix decided to devote the time his class would have spent watching the film to playing the “oppressed conservative” victim card and making sure his students knew about the supposed liberal agenda.
“So here’s the deal: your First Amendment right to peacefully assemble in this classroom and to have free speech was ruined by one person. A liberal. I keep telling you, when Democrats are offended by something and they don’t agree with it, they want to shut it down, they want to ban it, and they want to censor it. So you have lost your First Amendment right that is guaranteed to you by the Constitution to peaceful assembly in this classroom, and to free speech, because of one person. How’s that make you feel?”
That’s a winner’s move right there, singling-out and blatantly attacking the student who kicked your ethics violations right in the balls.
Mr. Hendrix then proceeds to tell his students that the violence at Donald Trump rallies are not a product of his rhetoric, but because “George Soros and some of his liberal foundations” paid protesters $3,500 each to cause problems at Trump rallies.
“I don’t care whether you agree with Donald Trump’s politics or his philosophies or not. The man has the right under the Constitution to hold a presidential rally and have a peaceful rally. You had people there starting fights, standing, then they want to blame it on him because of his rhetoric, because of what he says. No, you did that because you got paid $3,500. Birds of a feather do what? They flock together. Let this be your first lesson on liberalism, Democrats 101. Let this be your first lesson. Don’t say Jesus at school. Oh, Lord, don’t say Jesus at school. But we can push Islam on you, and, you know, gay rights, and all this other stuff. All that’s acceptable. But don’t say Jesus. Okay?”
So this history class has become “Democrats 101,” taught by a conspiracy theorist, “constitutional conservative” prick who has a problem with church-state separation, gay rights, and apparently, anything factual.
Mr. Hendrix’s rant continues with him telling his students the sooner they learn about liberalism, the better off they’ll be. He then goes on a tirade about how he’ll “never understand” the support Democrats receive from African-Americans.
“I keep telling you, I’ll never understand how Blacks can support the Democratic party. It just blows my mind. All they do is convince ya’ll that whoever the Republican nominee is is going to take away food stamps and all this stuff, put you in chains, and send you back to Africa. Well, shit, if that was going to happen, they would have done it a long time ago, wouldn’t you think? Has a Republican ever done that? No. Here’s the bottom line on Republicans, because I am one. Actually, I’m a Constitutional Conservative. We just want you to get off your ass and go to work and be productive members of society and quit mooching off the government, because somebody is paying for that. Me.”
And now, he’s a racist, conspiracy theorist, “constitutional conservative” prick.
Holly Dickson, an attorney with the ACLU of Arkansas, said of Mr. Hendrix’s tirade:
“We’ve had several calls about this. I think that’s an important point. [Mr. Hendrix] seems to think there’s one complaint about the film and I think in general the students realized that this was clearly illegal and over the top. We’ve started hearing more. It’s not just about the film, obviously, which you can hear just from the audio.”
This isn’t Mr. Hendrix’s first time bedding controversy. That cherry was popped in 2014 when Mr. Hendrix was fired from a coaching job for calling a student a “faggot” and a “fucking queer.”
There are rules for how teachers conduct their classrooms. For example, teachers are not allowed to go on partisan harangues and give students study guides about The Passion of the Christ that ask, “Did seeing the movie change your perspective on Christ’s suffering for your salvation, and the degree to which Christ loves you?” in a damn public school history class. Mr. Hendrix does not have the same academic freedom afforded to college professors, and even the latter cannot go on diatribes like the one Mr. Hendrix went on. They also cannot ask students how they “approach the cross.”
This isn’t Liberty-fucking-University and Mr. Hendrix is Jerry-fucking-Falwell. A public high school history class is not the place for evangelism.
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