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Evaporating First Amendment?

By Alliance Alert

Inside Higher Ed: "In the latest ruling, a federal judge rejected a suit by Mike Adams, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington who charged that he was denied promotion to full professor because of his conservative, Christian views . . . The Alliance Defense Fund, which has been backing Adams, issued a statement Monday in which Jordan Lorence, one of its lawyers, said: 'We disagree with the court?s assessment that Dr. Adams?s speech is somehow not protected by the Constitution. Opinion columns are classic examples of free speech protected by the First Amendment, and mentioning them on a promotion application does not change this fact.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).