Now a second teacher at the University of Oklahoma has been caught up in a scandal involving discrimination against Christians, or Christian beliefs.
Originally, Mel Curth, a man posing as a woman, gave a Christian student a zero on an assignment for students to respond to an article about gender norms. Student Samantha Fulnecky expressed her Christian beliefs and was flunked.
Punishment for the teacher soon followed.
Now a report from Fox News reveals a second teacher, a teaching assistant, is facing discipline for agreeing to give students protesting the punishment for the first teacher an excused absence, but refusing to give another Christian, desiring to take part in a counterprotest, the same.
The school confirmed days ago that teaching assistant William “Mel” Curth, who uses she/they pronouns, was taken out of the classroom after flunking student Fulnecky over an essay in which she explained Christian beliefs.
The school later confirmed it would not use that assignment in Fulnecky’s grade.
But the school shortly after said a professor, not named, offered excused absences to students who wished to join a protest in favor of Curth’s reinstatement.
But when Turning Point’s chapter president, Kalib Magana, apparently asked for the same, to join a counter-protected, the request was denied.
The group’s social media page identified the teacher as Kelli Alvarez.
“In a later interview with student newspaper OU Daily, Magana reportedly identified Alvarez as his English Composition II instructor,” the report explained.
“Kalib should not be marked absent for showing up as a counter-protester while those in favor are excused. That is discriminatory,” the Turning Point post said.
The school again had to act against discrimination.
“On Wednesday, a lecturer allegedly demonstrated viewpoint discrimination by excusing students who intended to miss class to attend a protest on campus, but not extending the same benefit to students who intended to miss class to express a counter-viewpoint,” the school said.
That “lecturer” has been replaced in classes, being placed on administrative leave, and students were told they would not be penalized for their speech on the issues at hand.
Curth had lashed out at the student after she endorsed biblical standards for gender norms.
He claimed her essay lacked empirical evidence, but that was not a requirement of the opinion piece.
Curth insisted he was offended by the student’s response.
Stunningly, Curth claimed “sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed,” despite the scientific fact that being male or female is embedded in humans down to the DNA level.
For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.
In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be… pic.twitter.com/R3J4FaGEtw
— TPUSA_OU (@TurningPointOU) November 27, 2025
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