Atheist student expelled two weeks before graduation for questioning classmate's belief in leprechauns

I was going to make a snide comment about how many Christians claim they are discriminated against, then I read

I expressed that I felt discriminated against as an atheist, and he informed me that mine was not a protected class of people

And suddenly it doesn't seem funny anymore.

I'd like to believe that there's more to this than the article would seem in infer. I suspect we're only getting one side of the story - but Atheists are, as Dawkins is fond of pointing out, one of the last groups of people it's "ok" to discriminate against, marginalize, and generally heap scorn upon.

I've seen members of each of thse groups be discriminated against, marginalized, and have scorn heaped upon them. Including Christians, and I'm sure any other religious group.

Which group it's acceptable to dump on really depends on where your standing at any given moment. It depends not only on which people are in front of you, but the time of day. Some people who are tolerant in one instance, will become intolerant in other because they have a different group of friends standing around them.

In this story, the headline " Atheist student expelled two weeks before graduation for questioning classmate's belief in leprechauns," is then specifically denied by the material you quoted. According to an emailed letter from Engeldinger, Averill had violated the student conduct policy. The decision to dismiss Averill was "not the result of a single action on your part, but a series of actions. I believe that, in several instances, your actions have been aggressive, demeaning, and threatening and that this demonstrates a pattern of inappropriate and unacceptable behavior," Engeldinger wrote.

In other words, the school is at least stating that this was not the reason why. They might be lying, but I think your headline isn't necessarily accurate.