Ethics

Another Teacher Fired Over Loyalty Oath

By Ed Brayton

The LA Times reports:

When Wendy Gonaver was offered a job teaching American studies at Cal State Fullerton this academic year, she was pleased to be headed back to the classroom to talk about one of her favorite themes: protecting constitutional freedoms.

But the day before class was scheduled to begin, her appointment as a lecturer abruptly ended over just the kind of issue that might have figured in her course. She lost the job because she did not sign a loyalty oath swearing to "defend" the U.S. and California constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

The notion of a loyalty oath makes my skin crawl, as it should anyone who likes freedom.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).