He'll sue. His lawyer is from the ACLU and lives for this stuff.
Let me put it this way:
From the Denver Post, 5/18/06-
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3834953
Prof ready to sue if fired
(snip)
Lane compared Churchill to Galileo, who was tried for heresy in the 1600s for saying the Earth orbited the sun.
(end snip)
If you've got this much of a persecution complex going on, the odds of a lawsuit happening approach near certainty.
Right and you put it so well.