{"id":18140,"date":"2020-01-10T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:17:39","slug":"rutgers-student-told-not-to-quote-bible-in-essay-because-of-separation-of-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/rutgers-student-told-not-to-quote-bible-in-essay-because-of-separation-of-church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers student told not to quote Bible in essay because of ‘separation of church and state’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joshua Aminov<\/a> – January 2, 2010<\/p>\n

After quoting a popular Bible verse to back up his assertion about the tenets of Christianity in his college essay, a student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick says he was told to avoid quoting Bible verses in academic papers because of the “separation of church and state” and the potential to offend non-Christians.<\/p>\n

Political science student and Campus Reform<\/em> correspondent Peter Cordi was assigned an autobiographical paper in his \u201cIntro to Gender, Race, and Sexuality\u201d class last semester. In his paper, Cordi referenced a personal friend of his who struggles with his own homosexual identity, especially given the views of the individual\u2019s mother. Cordi wrote about how his friend’s mother cites her Christain religion and beliefs to justify her opinion of people who identify as gay.<\/p>\n

Cordi is a Christain who disagrees with his friends\u2019 mother’s views toward members of the LGBT community and quoted scripture from the Bible to support his position. Cordi quoted the popular verse John 3:16 from the Bible: \u201cFor God so loved the WORLD that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”<\/p>\n

In grading Cordi\u2019s paper, Professor Kathe Sandler<\/a> included her remarks next to Cordi\u2019s use of the quote, telling the student that his use of a quote from the Bible was inappropriate.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Aminov – January 2, 2010 After quoting a popular Bible verse to back up his assertion about the tenets of Christianity in his college essay, a student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick says he was told to avoid quoting Bible verses in academic papers because of the “separation of church and state” and the potential … Continue reading Rutgers student told not to quote Bible in essay because of ‘separation of church and state’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[504,175,177,14680,234,241,14679,26,14678],"class_list":["post-18140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-bible","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-kathe-sandler","tag-lgbt","tag-persecution","tag-peter-cordi","tag-religion","tag-rutgers-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4IA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18142,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}