A Bible-based essay. A failed grade. A culture war has resulted in a graduate instructor losing her job. Mel Curth, a transgender teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma, just lost her job. The reason? She failed a student's essay that was based entirely on the Bible and Christian views about gender. No formal citations, just faith.
Now it has escalated into a national culture war over religious freedom, academic grading, and what happens when a conservative student's beliefs clash with what a university expects in an assignment.
