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"I support Ward Churchill's right to free speech and I do not support any action that would revoke his tenure on the grounds of what he has published or said publicly."

The First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. "

Congress is not involved in Mr. Churchill's plight, and no abridgement of his free speech has been made by that governmental body.

This "Freedom of Speech" thing has gone the way of "separation of church and state"...out of context entirely.

The public, private institutions, businesses, etc., can say anything they want in response to Mr. Churchill's rhetoric. People are not licensed to say anything they want to another person, or to the public, by the First Amendment...it just says that Congress cannot pass a law against it.

But, in addition to his asinine comments condeming all the 9-11 victims as communists, he has also committed Fraud (It's against Federal Law to claim minority status to get a job), and now forgery/plagerism, and assault on a reporter.

So if you think he should continue to teach young people with a character such as his, based on your mis-interpretation of the first amendment, then you must be childless.