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University Of Illinois Adjunct Professor Fired For Homophobic Email Explaining How To Answer Question On Final

By ADF Alliance Alert

Lez Get Real: "Howell ran to the Alliance Defense Fund, a group that 'provides the resources that will keep the door open for the spread of the Gospel through the legal defense and advocacy of religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional family values.' This, of course, has included lying rather a lot in the past. According to their Senior counsel David French, 'A university cannot censor professors? speech ? including classroom speech related to the topic of the class ? merely because some students find that speech ?offensive.? Professors have the freedom to challenge students and to educate them by exposing them to different views. The Alliance Defense Fund is working with Professor Howell because the defense of academic freedom is essential on the university campus.' Actually, they can. In 2001, a professor was censured in Georgia for saying that ?the United States deserved to be attacked?. The statement was said within two weeks of 9/11. As an adjunct professor, Howell can be terminated without notice and without reason given. He has no legal recourse and will likely not get his job back no matter what the ADF says."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).