Posted on 03/30/2016 8:35:22 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Marquette University has moved to suspend and then fire Professor John McAdams for backing a student who tried to defend man-woman marriage when a leftist teaching assistant shut the student down.
In the fall of 2014, junior faculty member Cheryl Abbate told a student, who secretly recorded the exchange, that his defense of man-woman marriage was an unacceptable topic in her ethics class and compared his views to racism. She said, "You can have whatever opinions you want but I can tell you right now, in this class homophobic comments, racist comments, and sexist comments will not be tolerated." And then she told the student he should drop the class.
On this very popular blog, Professor McAdams outed the incident and charged the teaching assistant with "using a tactic typical among liberals now. Opinions with which they disagree are not merely wrong, and are not to be argued against on their merits, but are deemed 'offensive' and need to be shut up."
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It was announced this week that a "diverse" faculty committee recommended to the university president that McAdams be suspended without pay from April 1 through the fall of 2016 and that he lose his job unless he admits "guilt" and apologized "within the next two weeks." Specifically, the demand is "Your acknowledgement that your November 9, 2014, blog post was reckless and incompatible with the mission and values of Marquette University and you express deep regret for the harm suffered by our former graduate student and instructor, Ms. Abbate."
The ever quotable and crusty McAdams compared the demand to the "Inquisition, in which victims who 'confessed' they had been consorting with Satan and spreading heresy would be spared execution."
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He also referred to Marquette's "Catholic mission" as nothing more than a "marketing gimmick."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
" University Moves to Fire Conservative Professor Over His Political Views"
but the real story is this:
"Catholic University Moves to Fire Catholic Professor Over His Catholic Views"
Please note that in referring to "Catholic views", I am not speaking of the "view" that marriage is a union of a one man and one one woman only, but the liberty / academic freedom view that the student in question had the right to provide intellectual defense, in an ethics class, for the proposition that marriage = man + woman.
Th Catholic principle of academic freedom, which was manifestly more robust in the 13th century University of Paris than it is at Marquette.
Now, what should happen here?
What should happen is that via several different routes, this should be corrected, Professor John McAdams fully exonerated, and those who moved to sack him (esp, University president Michael Lovell.
Incidenally, Lovell has stated that the sacking of McAdams has "everything to do with our Guiding Values and expectations of conduct toward each other and nothing to do with academic freedom, freedom of speech, or same-sex marriage."
He's being sacked for nothing?
Read it here, on Marquette's Facebook, yet!
Lovell is, what can I say? A mealy-mouthed tyrannical putz.
I'm thinking, the Imprecatory Psalms. As I remember it, there's one about shoving somebody's teeth down his throat.
Speaking only allegorically, of the demons, of course.
As Eric Ericson notes: You will be made to care.
I thought Marquette is a Jesuit school, not a Catholic school.
Another story about McAdams and Marquette.
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The pope should declare that Marquette can no longer claim to be a Catholic institution. But he won’t.
The Society of Jesus is an order of the Catholic church so that would make a Jesuit college a Catholic school, I believe.
Pope Francis is such a corrupting influence, so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he sent one of his thugs to “persuade” Marquette to be a Leftist college.
Love how Academia values freedom of thought.
Pray AMerica wakes
And he might!
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Maybe Marquette should be called a “historically Catholic college” (like Bluefield State College in West Virginia is a “historically black college” with a student body that is over 80% white).
Actually, Marquette has been in the sewer for decades.
At least since Al McGuire left.
“I thought Marquette is a Jesuit school, “
It is.
There is no freedom of speech in the USA. Hasn’t been for about 50 years.
Students from Marquette and UW Nadison Law Colleges are automatically enrolled as members of the state bar upon graduation . Watch for the move to remove Marquette from having that distinction.
Bump
It was a joke.
Do they know that? Jesuit universities often say they are Jesuit universities, not Catholic. Almost like it's the opposite.
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