Temple U. Faces Suit After Trying to Have Christian Student Committed

From Agape Press. The following excerpt describes the issue:

Back in 1999 Temple University sponsored the controversial and blasphemous play Corpus Christi, in which Christ is portrayed as a homosexual. Michael Marcavage, then a Christian student at the Philadelphia school, complained to administrators. Temple officials eventually tried to have Marcavage committed to a mental institution because of his opposition to the play.

Specifically, the officials summoned him to their offices and read him the riot act about tolerance and all that schmaltz. In reply, Marcavage said that he had to go and pray. So he went to the bathroom to have a private space--and they rushed him and held him down by force. They were all ready to have someone put a straitjacket on him and throw him into the rubber room!

I remember thinking at the time, Did I just step through the "Atavachron" (Star Trek episode titled "All Our Yesterdays") and pop out in Moscow, USSR, when Josef Stalin was in charge? What in the name of St. Paul is this?

Mr. Marcavage has gone on to graduate, but immediately announced his plan to sue Temple University in federal court. That case is now, at long last, about to come to trial.

For a further update on what Michael Marcavage is doing with himself, check out his new site, Repent America.