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Last year, a bisexual male student at the University of Texas–San Antonio, Alfred MacDonald, apparently engaged in a conversation with a Christian student who noted she was marrying a Muslim man, expressing his discomfort with the religion- or rather, with the fact that he'd be facing the death penalty for his sexual orientation in 10 Muslim-majority countries. For this, he was instructed to meet with the chair of the philosophy department, Dr Eve Browning, where he was told in no uncertain terms that he had committed the crime of "offending" someone, that "We have not designed our program to tolerate these behaviors," and that "We're not going to let you damage the program."

However, the entire conversation was secretly recorded by MacDonald, and has now been published, making for some interesting listening: https://vid.me/2CRaa. At various points, MacDonald attempted to use philosophical reasoning to defend himself, to no avail. When Dr Browning noted that multiple people were offended by his comments, MacDonald accused her of succumbing to the logical fallacy of ad populum reasoning; and when he protested that he was on a public university campus, where the 1st Amendment is in effect, Dr Browning stated that his "very objectionable... derogatory comments" could absolutely get him dismissed from the philosophy program, and expelled from the university.

Intimidated by the threat of dismissal, MacDonald transferred to a different university not longer after his meeting with Dr Browning, and waited until he was in good standing at his new university before going public with the audio recording. Both Dr Eve Browning and the University of Texas–San Antonio refuse to comment, with Dr Browning citing her safety as the reason: ‘The number of threats I am receiving (due to threads the student has started on Reddit) makes this a subject I would not feel safe discussing even very generally.’

So, what are your opinions- whose side do you take on this? Was this fair?