From Catholic Culture:
The University of Illinois has offered to reinstate a Catholic faculty member who was dismissed after he explained Church teachings on homosexuality.
University officials announced that they would welcome Kenneth Howell back to campus as an adjunct professor, to teach a course on Catholicism. His faculty appointment had been terminated after he was accused of “hate speech,” for sending an email to a student in which, responding to the student’s question, he accurately summarized the Church’s teachings…
It did take the threat of a lawsuit to get action here, which is rather sad…but not as sad as the fact of the professors firing, in the first place. Here was a man teaching a course on Catholicism during which he explained a Catholic belief and he gets fired for alleged “hate speech”!. For goodness sakes, didn’t anyone at the University think for a moment how stupid it would look to fire someone over this?
But, just another battle in the war against Christianity – and, indeed, the war against all things decent and rational. This is yet another example of why we can’t call a truce in social issues – the other side will never agree to a truce. In large matters and small, they are forever trying to advance their agenda…and if it weren’t for people standing up for this professor, he would have remained fired…and even though he’s being reinstated, the fact remains that his firing casts a pall over academic freedom. All professors will think twice about what they say for fear of running afoul of our campus fascists.
We must fight until there is a distinct roll back of the left – until, that is, people can feel confident of speaking their minds on whatever subject without fear of reprisal. Only when that feeling becomes general in all aspects of American life can we say that there is room for a truce in social issues.
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