At Regent Law School, You Don’t Have Freedom of Speech on Facebook

Posted by Thor on October 12th, 2007 5 Comments

In case you didn’t know Regent University was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. Recently a student posted a freeze-frame picture from a YouTube video on FaceBook where Robertson is giving the middle-finger. Guess what happened?

The second-year law student said officials at the private Christian university in Virginia Beach demanded that he publicly apologize, then withhold public comment about the matter, or submit to the law school dean a legal brief defending the posting. Key chose the latter, arguing that his posting was satire protected under the First Amendment.

Video link is here. Sorry, couldn’t find it on YouTube.

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5 Responses to “At Regent Law School, You Don’t Have Freedom of Speech on Facebook”

  1. 12 Oct 2007 at 11:18 am
    1 TheUpstart said:

    This isn’t really surprising, is it? It’s a private school, so they can do whatever they want.

    Reply
  2. 12 Oct 2007 at 11:31 am
    2 belmont yo said:

    WWJC

    (who would jesus censor)

    Reply
  3. 12 Oct 2007 at 12:21 pm
    3 BusRider said:

    That’s some good publicity for this kid…

    Graduating from Regent Law, his job prospects (for good law jobs, that is) are extraordinarily small, so maybe he’ll at least get a little name recognition?

    Reply
  4. 12 Oct 2007 at 12:22 pm
    4 Thor said:

    haha resume padding :)

    Reply
  5. 12 Oct 2007 at 2:59 pm
    5 Dave said:

    Actually, his job prospects are probably pretty good. Check out this Slate article about the funnel from Regent to right-wing government work. Scary.
    http://www.slate.com/id/2163601/

    Reply

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