UC Berkeley Student Contends for the Faith - And Gets Attacked
"I'm Glad You Said That" - Jim Minnery Talks Faith & Politics
English - November 05, 2019 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGovernment News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"When Isabella Chow, a student senator at the University of California, Berkeley, decided to abstain from a pro-LGBT vote and instead explain her Christian views, she knew she’d have to weather a storm. She just didn’t expect that storm to involve a torrent of F-bombs and demands for her resignation. Her campus political party broke ties with her. Groups she once represented disavowed her. More than 1,000 people signed a petition calling for her resignation because of her “blatantly homophobic and transphobic views.”
A club she’d been a member of since freshman year voted her out. Berkeley’s main school newspaper, The Daily Californian, ran an editorial criticizing her, while refusing to publish an op-ed she wrote explaining her decision. The paper said the op-ed “utilized rhetoric that is homophobic and transphobic by the Daily Cal’s standards.” Taken from a World Magazine article by Sophie Lee.
On this episode of Family Matters, I have the distinct pleasure of interviewing Isabella Chow for our radio show today. You won't want to miss it.