A seemingly trivial dispute over whether a University of Oklahoma student deservedly received a failing grade for a psychology class assignment has improbably become a national civil rights controversy.

Samantha Fulnecky, a pre-med student in her junior year, received zero out of 25 possible points for a short essay in which she defended traditional gender roles with heavy reference to the Bible and her Christian faith.

Fulnecky responded to her grade by accusing her instructors of discriminating against her for her religious faith.

The campus' Turning Point USA chapter helped to amplify her claims of discrimination on social media, which has since prompted an official university investigation into the affair, a public response from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (who called Fulnecky's accus

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