This past Saturday evening, I was very happy to see my University of Arizona Wildcats beat The Oregon Ducks. I still have a soft spot on my heart for my alma mater, that is, until they get looney and it stands to reason that they have.

The University of Arizona recently issued a faculty guide on how to make a classroom a “safe space”. The guide includes strategies for faculty and for students on practicing diversity and creating positive dialogue in the name of creating a “safe space” for students. The guide-all 20 pages of it-can be read in its entirety here. We’ll sum it up in a few shorts for you.

One of these situations deemed unacceptable by this “Diversity and Inclusiveness in the Classroom” document is:

• a heterosexual students (SIC) claiming that LGBTQIA+ individuals do not have a right to exist, using their religion to justify this claim.

So, according to this, those who belong to a religion that does not condone a LGBTQIA+(w,x,y and z) lifestyle are not permitted to condemn other students. Noted. Does this include the Muslim population or is this just aimed at Evangelical Christians? Because, we are supposed to embrace Islam, right? The (very anti-gay) religion of peace.

The document gives guidance on how to mitigate cultural and personal understandings. For example, the “fishbowl discussion”, where a select group of individuals is placed in the middle of the circle while all others who do not represent the group discuss and ask questions of the folks in the center. Because nothing says “diversity” like talking all of your African American students, all of your LGBTQ students, your men versus your women and separating them, singling them out as different and making them the focal point surrounding them by everyone else! You don’t like the “fishbowl” exercise? Here’s another brilliant idea: you can separate them into four corners of the room! And when that does not work, you could provide Personal and Group Affirmation by using and “Oops/Ouch” approach: