Swats unlimited, a personnel department veteran speaks out, Carnegieism, and other matters. GREAT MOMENTS IN RELIGION
By DANIEL SELIGMAN REPORTER ASSOCIATE Joe McGowan

(FORTUNE Magazine) – CHICAGO -- Theology professor Graydon Snyder told the same ((story)) to students for 14 years, to illustrate a difference between Judaism and Christianity: A roofer falls on a woman and they accidentally have sex. He used the story, that is, until one student ((said)) she was offended . . . The tenured professor, who has taught at the United Church of Christ seminary for more than eight years, said he used the story -- from the Talmud -- as an example of differences in the way people are judged in the eyes of God. ''The New Testament says if you think about doing the act, you've done it,'' Snyder said last week. ''The Talmud says if you do the act, but didn't think about it, you didn't do it.'' The student ((said)) that Snyder's use of the story from the Talmud, the collection of Jewish law and commentary, was inappropriate ((and that)) she was going to file a ((sexual harassment)) complaint . . . Snyder, 63, apologized to the woman but admitted no wrongdoing after he attended two hearings of the seminary's sexual harassment task force . . . The panel ordered Snyder to get therapy and advised him not to be alone with students or staff members . . . He is still teaching at the university, but not the introductory Bible class. -- From a news report in the Los Angeles Times.