Posted on 01/25/2017 10:38:55 AM PST by John Semmens
Professor John McAdams has been suspended for the past two years for questioning a colleague's suppression of free speech in his classroom. Marquette President Michael Lovell is adamant that "McAdams will not be reinstated until he confesses his error and apologizes for deviating from correct thought." The whole mess started in 2014 when McAdams posted his concern on his own blog that his colleague's policy forbidding students from disagreeing that gay marriage was a "good thing."
"Informed opinion has determined that gay marriage is appropriate," Lovell argued. "We cannot abide a member of our university's teaching staff undermining this truth by sowing doubt about the wisdom of a colleague's efforts to enforce this truth in his own way. By raising questions McAdams has violated his colleague's academic freedom and endangered the education of dozens of students."
Lovell rejected contentions that penalizing McAdams or that penalizing students for challenging gay marriage might violate their academic freedom. "Their is no academic freedom to speak falsely," Lovell claimed. "The quaint notion that truth will emerge from an environment where every idea may contend for believers is dangerously mistaken. It is our duty as educators to confront and exterminate lies wherever we find them. Until Dr. McAdams acknowledges this duty we cannot permit him to enter the classroom."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,244738.0.html
Missed the “semi-satire” at first :-/
Free speech is against liberal “principles”.
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