University Clears Worker Punished for Stating Objections to Homosexuality
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
December 13, 2005

(AgapePress) - A student employee at William Patterson University (WPU) in New Jersey has been cleared of sexual harassment charges. The exoneration of 63-year-old part-time student and campus technician Jihad Daniel comes some time after the university's initial reprimand of him for raising objections to homosexuality in his reply to an e-mail promoting a movie and discussion about lesbian relationships.

Initially, WPU found Daniel guilty of violating the school's discrimination policy for privately referring to homosexuality and lesbianism as "perversions" and requesting that he receive no further e-mail "about 'Connie and Sally' and 'Adam and Steve.'" His comments were written in response to an unsolicited e-mail from Arlene Holpp Scala, a Women's Studies professor at the school, who sent out a mass e-mail plugging a planned screening and discussion of a film about lesbian relationships. The rest